Comments on: I got some good advice http://www.paulworthington.com/blog/2007/12/11/i-got-some-good-advice/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amy http://www.paulworthington.com/blog/2007/12/11/i-got-some-good-advice/#comment-4 Amy Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:31:53 +0000 http://www.paulworthington.com/blog/?p=7#comment-4 I'm going to use some of these in my work -- thanks, Paul. Especially like the Tom Peters. One thing that I was told by an amazingly prolific and respected academician who I did research with all last year -- "If you can't explain what you're attempting to do as a process then you don't know what you're doing." It's pretty startling how many times assessing this one issue with my subordinates when they've hit a wall uncovers the primary problem: a failure to fundamentally understand what they are doing. I’m going to use some of these in my work — thanks, Paul. Especially like the Tom Peters.

One thing that I was told by an amazingly prolific and respected academician who I did research with all last year — “If you can’t explain what you’re attempting to do as a process then you don’t know what you’re doing.” It’s pretty startling how many times assessing this one issue with my subordinates when they’ve hit a wall uncovers the primary problem: a failure to fundamentally understand what they are doing.

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