15 Ways to Maximize Your Production

This is a short list on ways that you can get more bang for your buck. This is a term that I use here to describe what it means to get more done in the same amount of time. Increasing your production, your output is not based on just doing more work, spending more hours on the job; it’s about increasing your output in the same amount of time.

Working longer hours and saying that you are getting more done is not the route you want to go. You have not really achieved anything when you simply work longer hours, you are just doing more of the wrong things and trying to spin it that you are getting ahead faster because you are getting more done. You are like the cat that is chasing his own tail, around and around you go, a lot of activity, not accomplishing a great deal in the process.

This list has some new ideas coupled with some excerpts from the Power Productivity Maxamizer, PPM Occasionally I get emails and letters from people who say that I repeat some of the same points over and over again, yes I know and here is the reason.

First, if it’s important, it bears repeating if only to drive that point home. If you see it more than once, it should ring a bell and notify you that this is something that you should pay more attention to. See the same point several times, it is REALLY important.

Second, Some times I do not get it right the first time. I will write an article, add some new material to a System and not be as happy with what I have written as I would like to be. There is value to the new material but it is not perfect. What do I do? Wait till the material is perfect, when might that be? Or do I put it in and as time goes by, add to it and improve it ?

I choose to add the material, and as time goes by, re visit it and hopefully improve upon it.

That is why in this list of 15 ways to Maximize your Production, you will see new material, re edited old material and new ways of saying what I know will help you increase your Productivity.

NOTE With the exceptions of direct experts from our Power Systems, you may see articles that deal with similar topics but all of the articles are originals and you will always pick up new pointers and different perspectives on the same topics

· Is Your Work Working For You?

· There is a Right Way and a Righter Way

· White Space and Increased Productivity

· You Have to Make an Impact

· Increased Productivity is About Self Management

· Want to Get More Done? Work Less, Think More

· Use the Tools- That’s What They are There For

· You Knew I Could Not Resist- Drive Your Own Agenda!

· Open Your Bank Account, Invest Your Time, It’s the Only Way to Increase Productivity

· Why Your To Do List Must Become Your Done List

· 90% is Fine, Some of the Time

· Get Rid of the Easter Bunny

· Create Maximizing Circumstances

· Knowing When to Quit

 

" Talk is not enough, it must be combined with venture, it is not enough to stare up the steps, we must walk up the steps. " Valclav Havel

1. Is Your Work Working for You?

It’s a simple question, is what you are doing now, working for you, is the ways you are doing things now getting the job done for you? This is the first step to increasing your production, making the decision to change the way you are doing things because you are just not getting the results you want. From your dissatisfaction and the level of your dissatisfaction, you will start to make changes and from these changes, you should experience better results.

This is where increasing your personal production becomes a very personal process. Unlike Time management where there are common issues that work for everyone, individual production issues are much more individually oriented. You could be anything from a baker to a stock broker to an accountant; the ways and means to increase each one of your outputs will vary greatly.

My point here is simple; you need to start the process. In this material and in the Power Productivity Maximizer, PPM, you will find more than enough material to help you substantially increase your output. The first step has to be a conscious decision on your part to look at how you do things and how you can do them better.

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2. There is a Right Way and a Righter Way

Increasing your production is a relative process. Regardless of how well you are doing now, you can and should always be looking for ways to improve. This constant search for ways to improve and get better is what separates successful people from people who accept far less than what they should.

Regardless of your level of success or happiness, it is a mistake to sit back and think things will always remain the same. Things happen, circumstance, sometimes out of your control, can sweep in and radically change things, not always for the best, on you in a flash. That is why I always work with people on the mantra, get good, and then get better.

Getting better at things is like an insurance policy, its there if and when you need it. If you adopt this policy for yourself, you will always be putting yourself ahead of the curve. You will find this position is one that has a great many advantages for you. One of those advantages that goes along with always wanting to improve your performance is the built in component of not accepting a second best effort from yourself or those that are around you and those that you deal with.

The term that I use is standards. What are you willing to accept as the minimum standard for anything that goes on around you? Someone hands you a report, what standard of performance will you accept before you say, this is not acceptable. There is nothing that passes through your hands, nothing that you are not a part of that you should not have standards set on the completion of that task.

It is the setting of these standards that will allow you to set a base line for performance. The base line is the right part of this exercise. With out have a base line, a right way to performance, you have no chance of increasing your production to a higher level than you are already at. We all have to have some thing to shoot for, a start point on the horizon. With out some goal out in front of us, we tend to wonder and when we do that, forget getting anything close to getting the production we should be getting.

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3. White Space and Productivity

White space refers to the spaces in your Day Planner that are left blank, no work Time Activated for those time slots. If you want to achieve anything close to optimum production from your self, you must ensure you have some times set aside where you do nothing.

No one was more aggressive when it came to working no stop than me. I equated non stop activity as getting the most out of myself. I could not have been more wrong. Creating white space for yourself goes hand in hand with another Productivity Maxamaizer, do not confuse being busy with being productive.

There are two kinds of white space you need to create for yourself. White space where you are totally off the work grid, you just get into the sail boat and off you go. The second kind of white space is what I refer to as working white space. I’m not at my desk, or at the office, but my head is still at work. I will be doing something else, non work related, but I will be defiantly working on things related to work.

I like to work in the yard, planting, hauling things around, doing things outside that give me a bit of a break but still allow me to go through issues in my hand that are defiantly work related. This kind of work related white space does two things for me, gives me a physical break from work and when I get back to work, allows me to be more productive because of the mental thinking I was able to do when I was off the clock, so to speak.

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4. You Have to Make an Impact

If you follow sports at all, you will be familiar with the term, so and so is an impact player. What this means is when ever this player is in the game, he impacts the game, people are aware he is there and he changes the game because of his presence.

If you want to achieve better results than what you are achieving now, you have to start to be an impact player. You have to change the course of events around your self and start to influence the activities that take place around you. In other words, you have to start to drive your own pre described Agenda, a term you have heard me use before.

Driving your own Agenda means you will be the person who dictates what you will be doing and how other people will be responding to you. I use a number of different ways to say the same thing but in the end, you have to make an impact on what goes on around you. Making an impact could be as simple as being the one who says when a certain activity will start to being the one who stops the assembly line because the product being produced does not meet company standards.

Making an impact could be stated as being pro active. You do not wait for some one else to jump in, you are the first into the pool, the first to address the issues and the one who sets the tone.

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5. Increased Production is about Self Management

I know what I should do; some times I just do not have the discipline to do it. That is a lack of character and a lack of self management. That is what separates me, from those that are more successful than me. You have to decide if you know what to do and you are just not doing it or if you need to find out what to do and then just do it.

I’ve used the example of increasing your production here as an example of a lack of self management but I could just as easily put any number of disciplines here. The days that I do well, get what I want to get done when I want to do them, I know they are the days when I have stayed the course. Staying the course is when I can stay focused, stay disciplined and manage myself.

In case you are not aware of this, to a large extent, perhaps 90 % or more, our future success or lack of such, lays in our hands. The process of taking control of our lives or taking more control of out lives hinges on us taking responsibility for the results we have been getting up to now. It was not until I took responsibility for my results that I began to make some real progress in my own life.

This step becomes very painful for some people. This process takes place with real people in real time in my seminars. As we work through these issues, people continually pass the blame on to other people and events that they say they have no control over. At some point I just tell them that they have to stop being a victim and start taking control of their own lives.

Moving from the perspective of being the victim to the person who will start making the decisions and start taking responsibility for them is a big step. The first steps in this process are properly setting your days up and this is covered in detail in the Power Time System. You want to first have a plan in place, a fundamentally sound plan and then build on that.

You always want to put yourself in a position of strength. of power and the best way to do this is surround yourself with checks and balances that you put in place to make it easier for you to succeed than fail. For example, if you Prioritize your activities, Time Activate them into your Day Planner, you have now dramatically increased your chances of success. You have voluntarily backed yourself into a self imposed corner where success is a much more likely outcome than failure.

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6. Want to Get More Accomplished - Work Less - Think More

I’m not advocating sitting on you butt and day dreaming, what I am advocating is spending the appropriate amount of time thinking, planning and researching what and how you are going to do the next days tasks.

It astounds me how large, huge companies can just plough ahead day after day, month after month with virtually no actual plan as to where they are going and how they are going to get there. I deal with them all the time, the meeting goes something like this.

They walk in and say they were talking to so and so and they were really happy with the work we did with them and the results we got for them. That is why they are here to day. Their problem is a lack of profits, spending too much money and not getting any return at all, and most importantly, they are spending a fortune on labor and are not seeing any results. I tell them I have heard this lament many times before and the solution is a simple one. All they have to do is spend less time working and more time thinking. You would be amazed at how angry some people can get when you tell them all they have to do is actually think and their problems will be almost over.

One of the central themes in the PPM is that for all of us to accomplish more, we have to think more about what we are going to do, before we actually do it. The actual reality of this concept sinks home in this situation, one we all find ourselves in.

In the middle of an impossibly busy week, a week where we find ourselves hopelessly behind, deadlines upon us, short staffed, work piling up faster than we can keep up, you have to invest some of your time to prepare properly for the next day, week and months ahead. Yes, you have to take production time, time where you actually can do some real work, take this time, that is admittedly in zero supply and spend it on organizing, planning and Prioritizing future tasks.

The short answer is this, most people can not do it, most people can not self manage themselves sufficiently to do what must be done to get the most value out of their time. In this situation, they just plough ahead and get themselves mired deeper and deeper into chaos, ignoring the things that would, could get themselves out of this mess.

This is just a short example of what is discussed in more detail in the PPM as well as the Power Time System. I will leave you with just one more thought on this topic. The real secret to accomplishing more is not just getting the volume up, but getting the volume up, in the same amount of time.

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7. Use the Tools, That’s What They are There For

Tools of the trade, we all are fairly familiar with this term. When you think of a carpenter, his tools of the trade are, hammer, saw, square, chisel. No carpenter would ever start his day with out these tools. You and I have our tools of out trade, the tools that are essential to our success if we are to get the most out of our days as well.

I’m talking about the tools that I know are essential for me if I’m going to have a fighting chance of getting through the day and accomplishing the things I need to do to be successful. In order for you to make the progress I believe you should make, you will have to at some point look at the material we have here, as essentials tools you will need to become successful.

It’s one thing for me to accept them, I developed all most all of them my self over the last 35 years and have seen the positive impact they have had on thousands of peoples lives in that time frame. You have not had that advantage.

I use the term tools here, other examples are SPP, our Systems, Policies and Procedures, our ways and means, what ever the terminology, the end result is this, use them, they are there for your benefit.

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8. You Knew I Could Not Resist- Drive Your Own Agenda

This ranks up there in the top 3 of what we have to offer here. This is a concept that I believe separates us here from others in this field. Just 5 years ago, I would not have said that.

Being able to get to the point where you are driving your own Agenda means a lot of things. First of all, it means that you are positioning yourself on the high ground, you get to see what everyone else may or may not do and you are the first to act. You physically are not on the high ground, but by being the person who is driving their own Agenda, most people will by virtue of you doing your own thing first, will just follow your lead.

Secondly, the majority of people who you deal with will not have an Agenda of their own and will be just as content to follow your lead as to blaze a path for themselves.

For example, you have already Time Activated 3 one hour time slots for your top Priorities for today. When the phone rings and some one suggests you meet them at 2;00, you check your Day Planner and see you have that time slot booked, you suggest 3:30 which is open for you, they agree because what is the difference to them, one time is as good as another if you are don’t working to an plan, an Agenda.

Thirdly, you can plan for interruptions that you know are coming and make sure they are scheduled to do the least damage to your day. Example, you must attend to some “housekeeping duties “, phone calls, returns, email, inter office communications etc. You set aside certain times, for set durations and get these things done and out of the way so you can continue on the activities that will benefit you the most.

Driving your Agenda is as much about the physical aspect of accomplishing things as it is about creating an attitude. When you think of a passenger in a car, what characteristics do you associate with a person who is a passenger? Now think of the driver of the car, what characteristics would you attribute to the driver?

You do not need to know either the driver or the passenger in order to contribute more aggressive, assertive, take charge qualities in the driver than the passenger. These are some of the new qualities I would like you to investigate as you look at the steps you would be willing to take on your journey to becoming more successful, more organized and more in control.

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9. Open Your Bank Account-Invest Your Time-It’s the Only Way to Increase Your Productivity

There are no free rides, if you want to achieve something; you have to be prepared to pay for it. If you want to get more, better results, if you want to increase your productivity, there will be a price to pay.

The price you must be willing to pay is to give up some of your precious time. As Napoleon once said, “You can ask me for anything, except my time “ He knew the most precious commodity he had was his time, once that is gone, we are gone.

Regardless of how rushed you are, how behind you are, the only sustainable way out of your situation is, carve some production time out of your schedule and use that time to improve your production process for future activities.

Example, you run a trucking company, you have 10 trucks that have to be dispatched each morning, and this process takes 30 minutes per truck with your current process. You know that if you just had the time, you could work out a new process and cut this time in half. This would be a savings to your company of approximately 75 man days in the first year alone.

You have to make that investment in additional time to create the new process that will in the long run, give you 75 additional days of production in the first year alone. It’s the equivalent to short term pain for long term gain. It is during these examples when the term invest your time is most accurate. How long will it take you to develop a new system to dispatch your trucks? If some one asked you, would you be willing to spend 2 or 3 days of your time, to guarantee an additional 75 days of free labor to you, would you do it?

You want to always be looking for these kind of “maximizing “situations. That is why we use the term investing your time. You want to invest your time in situations that will maximize your initial investment many times over. This is why we called our System on Productivity, the Power Productivity Maxamizer.

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10. Why Your To Do List Must Become Your Done List

When it’s all said and done, you have to have the ability to cross things off your To Do List. Your To Do List is where the Power Time System and the Power Productivity Maxamizer meet. These two Power Systems are the heart and soul of our program here.

We can all do the proper planning, organizing, Prioritizing, do all the mechanics right, but if we are not able to bring it home, do the execution, everything up to that point will be wasted. To move forward on a consistent basis, you must be able to complete what you have deemed important to you on a daily basis. Everything we do is based on this happening.

Let’s use this as an example. You are operating a manufacturing facility and you make car seats. To establish your margins, you have to find out what your capacity is each day, how many car seats you can make on a daily basis. You do some tests and you arrive at the figure of 100 car seats a day, less than that and you lose money.

Our To Do List works the same way. You figure out on a daily basis what you have to do each day in order to make money, to be successful. If you continually to do less than what you estimate each day, you will not make money and you will not be successful. What will happen is that you will start to fall behind, what is mot done today gets pushed to Tuesday and so on and so on. This chain reaction creates a situation where your To Do List is simple a wish list that has no relationship to what is actually being completed on a daily basis, the result is your are failing.

Your To Do List is a critically important check and balance in your over all process to reaching your goals and becoming successful. When you are not able to keep up with your self imposed workload, that is what your To Do List is, and then you have only one viable option. You have to scale back your expectations for yourself to a point where your To Do List and your ability to complete your tasks meet up.

One of the critical components of becoming successful and happy is being able to be in control and accomplish the goals you have set out for yourself. Perhaps the greatest source of stress and unhappiness in our lives is not being in control and not achieving what we want in life. If you are not able to achieve and complete your tasks and goals on your daily To Do List this is a signal that there is a major breakdown in your operations.

If you were a personal client of mine and you were paying me a lot of money to help you reach your goals and I was seeing that you were not able to consistently reduce your To Do List to a Done list, I would pick up the phone and tell you that we had a serious problem that had to be resolved.

Unfortunately there would only be two options available to you, to us. The first would be to find a way to enable you to complete all of the tasks on your list. Unless there was some single glaring reason that you were not able to do this, an unlikely scenario, we would be left with the second option. That option is to scale back your expectations to a level that is within your capabilities to complete on a daily basis.

Our grasp must be within our reach. We are accomplishing nothing if we do not allow our SPP’s, our Systems, Policies and Procedures to do there jobs and work for us. In this case, our TO Do List will signal to us when we are loading up too much on our plate and it’s time to back it up a notch or two. Ignoring this warning signal will put everything else you are doing in jeopardy.

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11. 90% Is Fine- Sometimes

Everything does not have to be a work of art I tell someone who is preparing an internal document for me. The goal is to get as much done as we can, within reason. Knowing what can be 90% and what can’t be can sometimes be a bit tricky.

No one is tougher on ensuring things are done right than I am but at the same time, probably no one says 90% is also okay as much as I do. I believe the ability to shift between being the stickler and also being the 90% person is a skill you want to acquire.

I know the next question will be, okay, how do I acquire that special skill? I was afraid you were going to ask that one. I wish there was a simple easy answer, as usual there is not. Let’s try this explanation.

What would you rather have 3 processes in you operations at 100% and have to not include two more that could be beneficial to you, OR, have all 5 processes in your operation, with all of them at 80%? Posses an interesting dilemma does it not. Thinking about this dilemma is a major step forward to increasing your productivity and moving forward on all fronts that will benefit you.

You will find that this is a constant dilemma, balancing available time and resources with the need to get things done. It’s a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. You want to do 5 things to day but you only have time to do 4. What is a person to do? You can start to borrow time from one task and add it to another. This is where the 90% completeness angle comes in.

The closer you get to 100%, the more time it takes to get the final percentages accomplished. The time it takes to get to the first 50% of the job takes up much less time than it takes to get the last 50% of the same job accomplished. This disparity in time versus amount accomplished widens the closer you get to 100%. The final 10% of the job will take 2 or 3 times more time to finish than the time it takes to get from 70% or 80% to 90%.

What this all means is this, you have to decide if this disportionate amount of time to reach the final 10% is worth it to you when that time could be better spent on starting and finishing another task.

The fact that you may not have given this concept any thought in the past and you are now aware of it is enough for now. This concept is what I call a fine tuning thought process; it is just another piece of the puzzle that now, will hopefully play a role when you look at your production issues.

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12. Get Rid of the Easter Bunny

This is a real simple straight forward tip on how to dramatically increase your production. Remember when you were a little kid, your parents would hide Easter eggs in the house and you would get up and have to hunt all over the house to find them. Took some to time find them, didn’t it? You think we would learn a lesson from this but we didn’t.

One of the all time biggest time wasters and production thieves is the Easter egg hunt we go on when we want to find something in our workplace. The time we spend looking for everything under the sun is staggering. I use to do Productivity audits for companies, we would send in a team of people and just stand there and observe their production and operation procedures. What we would see would have been funny if it was not so costly for the owners.

One example that I have to tell you is this one, almost unbelievable and if I was not there to see it myself, would not of believed it was true. We were doing a productivity audit for a large electronics manufacturing facility in Ontario. ( the company has since gone out of business so I am no longer under the obligation not to mention my relationship with them ).

We started in the morning as the first shift started to come on the floor. I noticed someone had gone into the janitors room for something, had not found what he was looking for and then proceeded to go back and forth through this facility looking for it. I found out what it was when he finally found it, it was a broom that someone on the previous shift had used, failed to put it back where it belonged and just left it, the broom, at his workstation.

The new person, had found it about 40 yards away and then took it back to his station, proceeded to sweep out his area and guess what, just leaned the broom against the wall outside of his station and proceeded to go about his business.

During this time frame, I was able to see my guy go through his steps as well as still keep my eye on the janitor’s room. While my guy was sweeping up his area, someone else had gone into the janitors room and also came out emptied handed. He started his search now, presumably for the broom. The second guy finally found the broom, propped up against the wall, outside of the original persons workstation, the second guy then took the broom even farther into the facility, proceeded to use it and yes, left it outside of his workstation.

The broom was now about 100 yards away from where it should have been and this is where it gets surreal. I was being paid to do this audit and was being paid a fair bit of money to do it. I was with the shift supervisor of this facility and he was standing right beside me, watching this unfold, much to his discomfort. I asked him how serious he was about getting an accurate picture of what was going on in his facility, he said very serious. I said prove it, he said how, I said get on the intercom and ask everybody in this area of the facility to stop what they were doing and just stand there. He gave me a long look and then he did it, he got on the intercom and said everybody in section A stop what they were doing and stand where they were.

Hen everybody heard this they thought it was a joke but it was an opportunity to just stand there and get paid so they did. I turned to the supervisor and said “let’s see how many people are wondering around here looking for a broom”, the guy knew he was cooked.

We had already seen two people wandering around the place looking for a broom; I knew there would be more. We went up and down the aisles and asked the people who were standing out in the aisle, not at their work stations, what they were doing, 8 more people were looking for brooms. That means, in the first 30 minutes of this shift starting, 10 people were looking for one broom that was not even in the location where it should have been. Hundreds of dollars of man hours spent looking for a 10.00 broom.

A long explanation but one that I hope hammers home this principle. Start to do an audit on yourself, your operation and just stand back and watch and look at the times you and your people are guilty of going on an Easter egg hunt for things that are not where they should be.

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13. Create Maximizing Circumstances

This is another gold mine for those who are astute enough to create these situations. This is another area that you can consider to be an advanced technique but well worth the effort if you can work with it.

A Maximizing circumstance is one that is going to be repeated enough times in the future that investing some time now, will continually benefit you in the future. You own a small advertising company and you have to prepare quotes for people who ask about your services. You prepare have to prepare about 10 quotes for every confirmed order. The process to prepare quotes is time consuming and up to now has been done manually. If you can carve out some time, you can throw together a quick computer program that will do about 90% of the work in half the time.

This is the classic maximizer situation. You spend 10 hours today, to save you 5 hours each day, for ever. Just 2 days into this scenario, you will reap a productivity increase of 5 hours, every day, for the cost of just 2 days initial loss of production. What some people have a hard time doing is spending time now that does not seem to directly lead to production today.

This problem goes hand in hand with the fact that most of us are running as fast as we can to just barley stay ahead of the day to day workload, having to stop and use up that precious time on futures is a tough thing to do. It’s the old drain the swamp up to your ass in alligator’s scenario.

I’m behind now, I can’t seem to get caught up and you want me to fall farther behind by using up time and resources I can’t spare to work on something that may help me in the future. On the surface that seems like a legitimate concern, but only if you take a superficial look at it. If you spend any time and thought on the issue, you should realize that spending time now on creating and exploiting maximizing situations like the one here, is the only long term sustainable way to increase you productivity and get better results.

I have a question I put to my seminar people because they are live and right in front of me at the time. It’s after I’ve made a presentation on a topic like creating maximizing circumstances. I ask them this simple question,

"Do you think the people who are more successful than you, who are happier than you, and are getting more done each day than you, do you think they are creating more Maximizing circumstances than you or less maximizing circumstances than you ? "

There is a saying, want to be a successful person, find one and do what he does.

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14. Knowing When to Quit

That may be a strange one to put into this list but it’s a valid position to take in some circumstances. I’ve e personally been guilty on at least two occasions in my life where if I had known when to quit, I would have been infinitely better off.

One when I was trying to make the Canadian Olympic team in the marathon, a task I failed at miserably. Looking back, the signs were there that I was simply not only not good enough but was woefully unsuitable for the task. Having the dream and then working at that dream for so long, there comes a time when you have to realistically look at the results you are getting and then ask yourself among other things, is this good use of my time ?

If life went on forever and time was never an issue, then we could use it up and know there was an ever ending supply of it, and then we would not have to ask ourselves the tough questions. Time is never ending and because of this, we have to ask ourselves the tough questions. I should of asked myself the tough question in this next scenario.

In the mid 1990”s I started a direct sales organization. Spent about 5 years on it and in the end, realized that it was not going to be a success. The problem, the writing was on the wall about 6 months into the project and I spent the next 4 and half years trying to put a square peg in a round hole.

Hind site is 20/20, we all know that. What we have to learn to know is when we have to cut our loses and move on. Probably the best indicator of when it’s best to pack up and move on to another option is when you ask your self the modified version of the risk reward ratio. It’s a simple question you ask your self,

am I benefiting enough from the time and resources that I’m expending here or could I benefit more if I moved the same amount of time and resources onto another project ?

We should always find ourselves weighting this against that, if we are not, then we could be missing out on some good opportunities.

“Talk is not enough, it must be combined with venture, it is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the steps “
Valclav Havel

This is number 15 on our list. When I first read this quote it did not impress me at first, the more I read it, the better it sounded and the more it resonated with me. Two words seem to jump out at me, talk and venture.

Talk can easily be replaced with Time Management and venture can be replaced with Productivity Maximizing, which gives us this quote:

Time Management is not enough, it must be combined with Productivity Maximizing, it is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the steps.

I often refer to Time Management and Productivity Maximizing as the dynamic duo or the one two punch. It should be clear that one with out the other is similar to doing only half the job. Time Management tells us what to do and when to do it, Productivity Maximizing shows us how to do it.

What is so fascinating about working with this site and these disciplines is that it doesn’t matter how long I work with them, I still learn more about how to get better at what I do. I’ve written about number 10 , Why Your To Do List Must Become Your Done List probably about 100 times, maybe more but this article explains a new angle to an old concept that shines alight on it that I have never seen before.

I have never used the term checks and balances before but I should of because using those words explain more clearly what I have been trying to say for the last 20 years or so. I know will look at that tool we have had in our Power Systems for the last 20 years or more with a different perspective and be able to explain it better to the new group of people I will hopefully meet on this site.

Just another reason to keep coming back to this site, you never know what new things will emerge from the ashes of the old.

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