Small Firms Ideas Exchange

Not sure if its that the process was better 'then' as much as it is that the process has not caught up with time. I'm not making an argument that everything NOW, NOW, NOW is the 'best' way but one reason for all the garbled communication is just that folks are using old thinking processes on new technologies. Does that make sense? For instance, how many times have you just WISHED that people would learn WHEN to use 'reply all' and WHEN NOT TO!

Have you ever noticed how small the USA looks on a map when it's set to 150' = 1"
or how the interstates connect the cities like Christmas lights?

Unfortunately, this is an IMPORTANT Discussion and I doubt many people realize it. In my recent experience, I find so much "communication" really has NO CONTENT and much of it is a waste of time. Do I really need to volley 6 emails just to "schedule" a 20 minute phone call?

The business of our country is rapidly becoming the business of ' looking busy' and not the real business of getting things done! Gotta wonder where this all will lead....?

Making fast things good and good things fast- I agree they are opposites! The techno explosion has really disabled our society's ability to communicate. I heard Prince ( the singer artist) announced 'the Internet is a Fad' and disabled his website.
I find it difficult to keep client's attention during meetings unless we are in a No WiFi zone.

Let me know when you solve the Puzzle of whether it's better now. I have mixed thoughts but tending toward thinking it is improving.

I think the process was better then. It encouraged thinking. Whatever you were doing you had to do it right because if you had to change it, it was a big pain! Electric eraser and redraw on the drawings, retype the entire letter, etc. We need to instill the importance of thinking, asking questions, and following through to the end! We need to stop fixing our interns/employees mistakes or answering their repeated code questions. Give it back to them to redo and “this is why it is wrong”. Here is the code book, look at this section and tell me what you think the answer is. Give an employee a task – take the time to explain what you are trying to achieve or why we do it a certain way. Then they can make informed decisions and ask intelligent questions. Then the intern might teach us something or ask us something we had not thought of and suddenly we are all working together again in a process that has checks and balances. Everyone can contribute in a meaningful way instead of being mindless drones inputting data into the computer without really grasping the implications of our lines or ‘text’.