Rules to work by?

[drwex]

A while back there was a series of postings about peoples' rules or guidelines for life. I'm wondering if you have similarly pithy rules for the job you do.

Comments

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

o Take notes
o Write dates on all your notes; if you think you're gonna get called on something, put time stamps in your notes if you have to
o Document everything
o Label everything else
o Listen first, then make suggestions
o If the meeting is so slow and tedious and boring that it's killing your soul and destroying the project, start facilitating it
o Keep all things related to a given project in one place so you can go back and refer to older things (learn from history)
o Take responsibility for your actions and have a good explanation for why you were doing things a given way, esp. if it's not the standard way

I probably have more, but those are the top ones.

[drwex]

Good rules, all of them. I've kept a dated notebook at every job I've had since about 1985.

Of course, there's a fine line between "facilitating" and "running" and the person who's supposed to be running the suckful meeting might not see what you're doing as being on the proper side of that line...

[xthread.livejournal.com]

I second everything kjc007 just said.