{"id":3141,"date":"2020-06-22T01:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:02:22","slug":"just-in-time-head-scratching-and-congruence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/06\/just-in-time-head-scratching-and-congruence\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In Time, Head Scratching, and Congruence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>People differ in work styles. Failing to admit such is failure. Let&#8217;s discuss our difference and work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We turn in products on schedule, sometimes literally at the last hour. Well, what&#8217;s the problem? The products are on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And many are fine with that. If you finish ahead of time, you show that you don&#8217;t have enough work to do, so the customer will reduce your resources so that you have to push hard to make it at the last minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, being ahead is a good thing. It shows decisiveness and action and competence. And you have the surplus resources to surge for the unexpected, and if the current virus situation doesn&#8217;t show that unexpected happens, what will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless, we &#8230; could go on forever with &#8220;ands,&#8221; &#8220;buts,&#8221; &#8220;regardless,&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps we could speak directly, clearly, and congruently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finished my part of the product four days ago. I am troubled by you delaying the final step until the last hour. Errors appear at the last hour, and we don&#8217;t have time to correct them because it is the last hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to think about this. I appreciate you finishing days early. I saw your product, and I am thinking about my part. The final quality is acceptable to our customer, even though it isn&#8217;t acceptable to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s stop the other stuff and speak as adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips People differ in work styles. Failing to admit such is failure. Let&#8217;s discuss our difference and work. We turn in products on schedule, sometimes literally at the last hour. Well, what&#8217;s the problem? The products are on time. And many are fine with that. If you finish ahead of time, you show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,32,105,368,257,67],"tags":[120,154,219,365,258,187],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-communication","category-competence","category-resources","category-respect","category-work","tag-adults","tag-communication","tag-competence","tag-resources","tag-respect","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}