So many reports, so little time.
Thanks to someone posting a YouTube link which referenced the book/manual Up the Organization by Robert Townsend, here are some quotes on reports –
- What are you going to do with that report?
- What would you do if you didn’t have it?
- Never automate a manual function without a long enough period of dual operation.
- If the reports aren’t useful, they shouldn’t be prepared. (Duh, but guess what)
- Observe what action was taken, consider the opposite course, and then work back, when necessary, to what really makes sense.
p.s. Is there a song on making reports?
