How Can You Say What I?ve Written Needs Work
Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under 332 | Leave a Comment
You must fall in love with editing and rewriting or with your editor if you want what you write to be a good read for others. There really is no way around this. You can choose to improve your skills or you can choose to find a freelance editor you trust and work well with.
Some new writers don’t realize that what they’ve written needs more than words spelled correctly. They write it, read through it once, and consider it done. They may even think, “Maybe someone needs to look at it just in case I missed a comma or two.? Here’s another quote you might wish to take to heart:
Read More..>>Root Cause: It may take some digging to find it
Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under 332 | Leave a Comment
Problem solving is an important job of a manager. However, a problem can’t be solved if the problem isn’t properly identified and understood. Ineffective managers, including our favorite Crass Captain, jump to conclusions and solve symptoms. Even worse, they blame people and cause a witch hunt for the guilty parties instead of finding the real problem and solving it.
Quality programs, such as QS 9000 ? common to the automotive industry, use the concept of root cause analysis in problem solving. The person new to the system is frequently tempted to quickly jump at the answer without depth of investigation. A quality review that discovers quick assumptions being made by management will take this as weaknesses in company operations.
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