You Want It By When?Written by Rhoberta Shaler
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Extending a deadline is buying time. What are you going to exchange for purchase? When you have not met a deadline, your boss has four main choices: fire you, demand free overtime, give project to someone else, or extend your deadline. S/he is far more likely to feel positively about extending deadline if you can demonstrate an increase in value he or she will receive. Here's a great example of this: "To do most thorough job possible and prevent us from making a mistake on this, I'm going to need a week more. I don't think it will do us any good to try to rush it and end up neglecting x.y and z."* Be clear about what that additional time will produce--in this case, a more thorough, thoughtful and successful job. Make no excuses. Folks may accept them, but, they will never like them. Being perceived as an excuse-maker, calls your effectiveness and maturity into question. It affects your future relationship with these folks. This is big stuff! It's your career. Be pro-active!
Dr. Shaler speaks to thousands of people each year giving them and their organizations ‘The OK’s to SUCCEED!" --the Optimization Keys to lift their sights and elevate results from acceptable to EXCEPTIONAL. She is the author of 'Optimize Your Day! Practical Wisdom for Optimal Living’. Her book as well as her free ezines are available from her website, www.OptimizeLifeNow.com
| | WHEN NITTY-GRITTY DETAIL IS CRITICAL TO BUSINESS SUCCESSWritten by Noel Peebles
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As an example, I hate accountancy work, but I know it must be done. Important details like: if I don’t file a tax return on time I will get hit with penalty interest charges. Ouch! That’s why my accountant handles much of “boring” detail for me. I know my strengths and I know what I enjoy doing – accountancy is not one of them. Despite that, I do understand importance of getting essential details right and that’s precisely point I’m making. So, getting details right is important, but surprisingly enough, opposite is also true. By focusing too much on detail, it’s easy to get bogged down in specifics and lose sight of bigger picture. I have seen many a success turn to failure for exactly that reason. It’s when thought, which should be trained on big things, is diverted to attend to detail of little things. The fact remains, that too much attention to details can kill initiative and redirect focus away from important goals. However in saying that, most successful entrepreneurs do understand importance of getting details right. Even if they don’t handle details themselves, they don’t ignore them. In all likelihood, many entrepreneurs will have learnt that lesson hard way. So, success doesn’t necessarily go to person who never makes a mistake. The fact is; those people tend to avoid risks at any cost. Rather, success tends to shine on those who recognize that life is basically a game of percentages. It isn't making of mistakes that's so critical. What’s really important is fixing them when they do happen, without losing site of objectives and goals.
Noel Peebles. Market Leaders Limited. http://www.instantsellbusiness.com http://www.instantsellhome.com
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