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If you had to leave work early today, could you leave and know that your stuff would be taken care of? What if you had to take tomorrow off, too? What if you went on a world cruise and took a week off? A month?
For the next two weeks, I’m going to be multitasking like I never have done before. During this time of year, I’m normally working at The State News, gearing up for another semester of Read this author's blog.
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01.09.09
These tips can also be applied to an overload of work in general - if a team member has more work than can physically be handled, it's great to have open communication with a team so that others can step in to help out. In these cases, delegation may take longer at the forefront to get everyone up to speed, but it will no doubt make everything easier down the road.
01.09.09
It seems to me that the four principles you mentioned are just good practice in any company. Problems arise when there is no cross training, and/or no communication as to what projects are happening, what the progress is on each project, and what needs to be done.
As an aside, I've met many workaholics. This isn't necessarily bad. You may be a comic book guy and love working in your comic book store because in addition to the paycheck you get to have meaningful exchanges in your topic of interest (substitute comic books with whatever interests you).
The one thing that a liberal arts education has taught me is that we need to look outside of our immediate spheres and experiment. You may love what you are doing, and you may be a workaholic, BUT if the business is not your own and you have angst over what will happen when you go, there is definitely something wrong :-)
01.09.09
Nick:
I was an MS&U Writer in the early 90s. I remember those S'News days fondly. Hang in there!
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