That is a saying in a local Indian language. It is more applicable for classical singing, where the quality of singers voice is very important. If you don't stop at the right time, all the name and fame you made by putting lot of hard work, might just fizzle away.
I had a similar advice to this high performing team mentioned in the previous post. This is also applicable to many teams we see everyday, hence thought of sharing. It is about the art of figuring out when to stop.
This team has done all the hard work, made some high impact organizational and behavioral changes. Once they started to find it hard to make an impact on any particular workstream, or when they could not figure out what is next in a particular workstream, they could have closed that workstream. They could have celebrated all the achievements they made, and announced that they are closing those workstreams. That way all the hard work they did could have got the due credit and they can move on to new things. Because of not doing that, they opened themselves up to the critics who started questioning their impact based only on some recent developments. I have seen this in many projects too... the projects we call " the ones with the long tail". So I would encourage you to think about "when to stop" whether you are in an initiative, or in a project, or even when you are in a job : )
By the way, I want to congratulate this team for all the great work they have done so far. They deserve all the credit ..
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