Re: OT: Procrastination (was Re: Instant Chimping - Do You Do It?)

[Graywolf]

Sounds like he formalized an informal system that a manager I knew used. He 
worked on the principle that if no one hassled him about it there was no need to 
do it. Said using that priciple he only had to do about 25% of the work he was 
trying to do before he implimented it. I found out about that the third time I 
hit him up about something I needed. If you didn't hit him up about it two times 
in the two weeks after you made the request it wound up in his circular file.

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Doug Franklin wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:40:12 -0500, Graywolf wrote:

Or the fameous, "if you can put it off, it doesn't need doing anyway."

I used to work with a fellow that had an intriguing management process.
 He created nine piles of documents/tasks on the credenza behind his
desk, laid out 3 x 3 like a tic-tac-toe board.  From left to right, the
columns were high priority, normal priority, low priority.  From bottom
to top, the rows were this week, last week, before that.  So, the whole
grid looked like:
    oldest     | oldest       | oldest
    high pri   | normal pri   | low pri
    -----------+--------------+----------
    last week  | last week    | last week
    high pri   | normal pri   | low pri
    -----------+--------------+----------
    this week  | this week    | this week
    high pri   | normal pri   | low pri
Every monday morning, he threw away the top row and the rightmost
column and rearranged the remaining documents.  His logic was that if
no one had asked about it since before last week, it wasn't important
anyway.  And if it wasn't at least normal priority, he didn't have the
resources to deal with it.  He'd been doing it for twenty odd years,
and had a remarkably successful track record, so it must have worked
better than it sounded on the surface. :-)
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ



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