5 Ways Perfection Is Killing Your Fundraising Progress

Recently, I was given a piece of business advice that has stuck in my head: “Perfection is the enemy of progress.”

This statement sounds odd at first, as many of us think of perfection as the goal. After all, each of us wants to be the best, right? Yet, as I roll it over in my head, I realize there is profound wisdom in that simple statement.

Because I have spent nearly 30 years as a nonprofit fundraising consultant, this statement got me thinking about how perfection sabotages the efforts of the people around me—those in nonprofit development roles. There are five ways that I see the pursuit of perfection hold clients back in their fundraising progress.