What’s the greatest barrier to brilliant work?

Is it fear? Lack of time or resources? Confusion?

All of these contribute to one degree or another. I’ve written a ton about each of them, (including a full chapter in The Accidental Creative.) However, there’s one word that I think better stands as the bastion of mediocrity in many workplaces: adequacy.

On this episode we discuss a few causes of the normalization of adequacy in the workplace and how to counter them.

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The intro music for the AC podcast is by Joshua Seurkamp. End remix is by DJ Z-Trip.