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"Good-Enough is the Enemy of Humanity"

"Good-Enough is the Enemy of Humanity"

The new film BlackBerry carries a heavy warning for commodity agriculture, about how it can look when leading incumbents dismiss new market share threats.

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Brenda Tjaden
May 25, 2023
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In pressing his Co-CEO to rush out a prototype of the iconic Blackberry, Jim Balsillie drops the saying that ‘perfect is the enemy of good.’

Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, a detail-oriented technology genius replies, ‘well, good-enough is the enemy of humanity’.

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