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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Follow up to RIGHT FIRST TIME

This I had to post. After the life changing experience with RIGHT FIRST TIME (patent pending). The managers at my organisation came up with another blockbuster. GET THINGS DONE! (patent pending here as well). What is this path breaking paradigm? See for yourself. I am too over-awed to be sarcastic right now.

"Hi Team,

This is in continuation to XXX's mail about being RIGHT FIRST TIME (patent pending). I would like to add another dimension to it which is GET THINGS DONE (patent pending here as well).

I have been noticing this for quite some days now and would like all of you to follow this for each and every task you perform or someone asks you to do.

Be it a simple task like follow-up on a client mail, getting something installed on your PC, getting approvals, please ensure that you take complete ownership of the task and get it done.

Please do not wait for the person who has asked you to do the task to follow up again and again but be proactive and communicate with him/her if you are facing any bottlenecks. If you see any task is not being done properly by the project team/corporate team (IT/Admin/Transport/Finance/HR)/or even the client, please make it a point to raise it with your manager or in an appropriate forum.

This will also reduce the risk of any small issue turning into a potential fire. Be assured that this will help in developing your skill set and people will start looking up to you as a trusted team member.

If you have any queries/suggestions, please feel free to talk to me.

REMEMBER - Do not be reactive be proactive.

Thanks and best regards,
Manager"

And hey pssst... See that punchline? The one about reactive and proactive. Your's truly suggested that. Muhuhuhaahaahaaaaa I feel so like laughing an evil laugh. Damn you micromanagers. May you go to manager's hell.

7 comments:

Icarus said...
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Gandalf said...

Aeeeee! Now I'm doomed. The corporate lawyers are gonna HUNT ME DOWN(Process patent pending)

Az said...

hey hunt me down is my patent pending. and after all this wonderful stuff u say about ur managr's they are still sticking with u? 8-)

Az said...

i passed on some of ur songs to my clasmates..they wanted it when i was listening to my own roads in class...u r going to be a star here.they love u.

Gandalf said...

Wheeee! Thanks brother!

Gandalf said...

Oh and by the way, I am still with the 'company' because I GET THINGS DONE by being RIGHT FIRST TIME and therefore they won't HUNT ME DOWN.

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