http://managementblog.org/2009/02/11/procrastination-killed-it/ Managerial Leadership Practices based on the Time Span research of Elliott Jaques. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://managementblog.org/2009/02/11/procrastination-killed-it/#comment-1879 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:55:04 +0000 http://www.managementblog.org/?p=1041#comment-1879 Procrastination always kills projects. Leaving things until the very last minute doesn’t help the situation it just prolongs the outcome. Communication is very important when it comes to any kind of audits. Knowing the dead lines ahead of time is very important to plan the project assign responsibility to your team members, and most of all keep everyone informed by having weekly updated in how the project is coming along. If this ISO audit is your normal yearly audits, and all of your documentation is already in place, you should be able to accomplish this project without any difficulties. I’m very aware of this ISO audits and they are not as difficult as they seem. With good communication and good leadership you should be able to accomplish this project in 60 days.

]]> http://managementblog.org/2009/02/11/procrastination-killed-it/#comment-1878 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:12:37 +0000 http://www.managementblog.org/?p=1041#comment-1878 I’m an idiot and I ran an ISO 9001 project for a set of global operations that we did from sudden announcement from the CEO at headquarters to review in 90 days, with the highest score the auditor had ever given, so it can’t really be that difficult in 60 days if you already have procedures and policies. I’ve never been sure why people think it’s that hard to do. It’s not rocket science: just straight-forward stuff. If you have been doing anything close to your job as a manager, there’s not much to do. Our performance numbers went up during the project, too, which was an added bonus.

]]> http://managementblog.org/2009/02/11/procrastination-killed-it/#comment-1877 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:15:44 +0000 http://www.managementblog.org/?p=1041#comment-1877 This procrastination is a killer of not just ISO checks, it kills any audit. As mentioned in the post the time line started the day of the final work on the SOP creation.
These processes are developed to keep your work at an effectively hight quality rate, 2 months to cram the paper work and ISO figures only looks sloppy.
Think of the peanut butter salminila epidemic that is going on. One of those plants was NEVER inpected or certified! Once the industry adopts newer safety reguations acceptance keeps you and your industry out of lawsuits and bankruptcy

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