From the course: Time Management for Busy People
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Plan to fail
- I once heard of a business that offered a cash reward to any team member that alerted the rest of the group to any delays, shortfalls, complications, or setbacks. I thought this was brilliant. So often, people will try to hide problems until it's too late. If you don't know something's a problem, you can't fix the problem, so encouraging free and open communication and acknowledging that sometimes schedules go off. Sometimes things don't work the way we've planned. That's not a problem. The problem is lack of communication around the fact that the schedule's gotten all snarled up. So encourage your team to be realistic about their timeframes and hyper-communicative about meeting their deadlines or not meeting their deadlines. Another way to help prevent disasters is to have mini deadlines along the way to the larger deadline. This is true for you, as well as your team. So if I want to have a final draft done by a certain…
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