Tweakaholicism

Tweakaholic. Noun. One who is obsessed with tweaking things past the point of return.

• You have this. It’s why you do the things you do each day that make no difference; because it’s comfortable work rather than useful work.
• Your clients have this. It’s why they want to take control of things they may not fully understand, and get frustrated when it doesn’t go their way.
• Your team has this. It might be why that one project everyone thought was really important still isn’t done.

The cure: while doing work that matters, ask yourself, are you really?