Yesterday I attended the sixth of seven “Essential Leadership Skills” staff development courses that I am following. This one was on “Enabling People to Perform”. During the event the course leader gave a quote (without original source) that appealed to me…
Why do we not get time to do things properly when we do get time to do things twice?
To my mind this nicely captures a common problem that occurs in the workplace. things quite often have to be done more than once because they have to be completed in a rush and the outcomes are incomplete or in some way lacking. How better it would be to always make sure that there is enough time to do a job properly and, as a consequence, only have to do it once.
Tim O'Hare 