Running Around

Filling up our tank means we need to spend time focusing on ourselves. The good girl inside says always give to others first before taking care of yourself. Well, again, the good girl isn’t quite right. Instead, take some wisdom from the airplane safety message: “In case of loss of cabin air pressure, put your mask on first before helping others.” Love yourself first and then you’re best equipped to love and help others.

Take this designated month of love and like the song lyrics ask yourself “Who you do love?” Are you the first person who comes to mind? Perhaps it’s time to make some internal adjustment.
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The core values of people who grow up in larger families are influenced by factors that often go unnoticed by society. When my wife offers bread or rolls for dinner, she cannot understand why I do not take time to put something like butter on it. This situation goes right to the core of the illustration. When we were growing up as a family, dinner time was a very strategic moment in daily history. Without discussion, each child at the table knew what plan to execute, and each one performed the same ritual at every meal.

As we all gathered around the table, there would invariably be certain foods that were highly desirable, and others that we knew we would have to fill the rest of our plates with, once the good stuff was gone. The interlude which preceded the blessing of our meal was the perfect time to mentally prepare ourselves for the first target we intended to grab. Each of us pictured the angle of attack, the speed of the snatch, the physical distance from our seating location, and the potential contingency plans in the event of a competitor reaching for the same item.
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There was only one problem with this: nobody had told the foreman about any of this. We then wrote a simple Administrative Procedure for the foreman who took the necessary actions and the system operated correctly thereafter (“miraculously” as our client said).

This brings up an important point: systems will fail more for the lack of administrative procedures than for well programmed computer procedures. Although the manufacturing company had produced some rather elegant software, they had completely overlooked the man/machine interface. Again, the “PRIDE” Standard System Structure Concept had provided the necessary road map, but because the client didn’t appreciate the need for such a top-down blueprinting technique, they had no idea where everything was.

2. Work backwards.

When diagnosing business processes, procedures and programs, there is a natural inclination to go from start to end in diagnosing a problem. Sometimes you can find a hiccup using this approach, other times you cannot. Instead, try working backwards from end to start, from output to input. Again, map the design using a flowchart or some other graphical technique. If processing involves considerable decisions, draw a decision tree or table.
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