CHAPTER 7: AVOIDING EXPENSIVE MISTAKES
What are the challenges?
• Making decisions based on someone else’s timescales, priorities or demands
• Making sure you have the best tools to do the job
• Making sure you have resources to complete the project.
There is a great notice that I have seen many a time on employees’ desks. It usually says something like:
‘Please remember that a lack of planning on your part does not automatically constitute an emergency on mine!’
Whilst this statement is usually meant as a light hearted, ‘Don’t bother me, I’m too busy’ message, there is an underlying truth in the statement – one that you will be aware of if you have ever been approached by a colleague who needs a bill to be paid and communicates a threat ...
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