How long does it take to land the perfect kick?
Ask any martial arts sensei and the answer is simple: years.
At first glance, it doesn’t look that hard. But the moment you try, you realise how many micro-skills must come together at once: stance, timing, hip rotation, toe shape, pivoting foot, speed, distance, awareness.
The technique is what takes years. The kick is just the output.
Technique makes us effortless and effective.
Our power is simply the sum of technique plus effort.
Look closely and you’ll see the same pattern everywhere. When you learn the right technique, ordinary work becomes magical. Folding clothes, playing an instrument, leading teams, even managing ERP projects.
Yet in ERP implementations, most things are still being winged: SteerCos run without clarity, plans built on unstated assumptions, requirements captured loosely, architecture patched together on the fly. Massive effort, very little technique.
This is why ERP projects feel complicated when they don’t need to be.
If you’re putting in your best effort and still struggling with your ERP or CRM implementation, the problem might not be effort at all—it’s that you’re fighting a technical discipline with brute force and not enough technique.
Once the technique is right, everything gets lighter.
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