“Done but” increases WIP and turnaround time. Profits go … well, you know.
By Frank Stitely
The Relentless CPA
In my last book, I recommended hiring younger staff. In that book, I cautioned that you might have to teach very simple tasks like breathing and using the bathroom to your newbies.
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One reader posted that she didn’t believe it was the responsibility of an admin department to teach bathroom use. She was new to this hot new writing technique called sarcasm, but she did a great job making my point that you have to teach your staff a lot of basic things.
One of those teaching tasks is the meaning of “done.”
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