What Percentage is Enough?

[293 words] The Communications Division of Syncrude Canada Ltd. once did research on the danger of completing only 99.9% of some task. Of the many things they studied, their findings on money and the medical world will resonate with us the most (these are but a sample). If only 99.9% of the job is done… • Two million documents would be lost by the IRS this year • 22,000 checks would be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes • 880,000 credit cards in circulation would turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips • 12 babies would be given to the wrong parents each day • 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions would be written in the next 12 months • 107 incorrect medical procedures would be performed by the end of the day today This for 99.9%! Imagine how much worse it would…