There's no time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:58 PM Steve Hudson wrote:
What he just said. " without that understanding of why it was being done the way it was and, more often than not, those initiatives were short-sighted." MS to a tee

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Subject: There's no time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over [Was: Word 2016: weird S&R problem (solved)]

I was talking to my 80 year-old father-in-law on Saturday, trying to pick his experience to gain additional perspective about one of my work projects. I asked him about when he was working as a consultant at a company, how did he convince people to implement his suggestions? Through the course of our discussion, I heard him say this exact phrase - "There's no time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over." - while describing some of the changes he suggested. One of his examples was that he told me about was how consumers returning the company's goods were costing the company $20,000 a month, which he thought he could help reduce. Over time and before he stopped working there, that amount dropped to $2000 a month. He also shared the advice that when you are suggesting a change, you should know as much about the existing process - the way things are done now - as you know about your suggestions to amend / change that process. He said that people would come in with these grand ideas about changing how things were being done without that understanding of why it was being done the way it was and, more often than not, those initiatives were short-sighted.

I was chuckling a lot today - first, by the initial response about an update causing a problem, then secondly, when I read Sue's reply that used the same phrase I had heard from my father-in-law. Hope this gives you cause to chuckle a bit too!