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January 5, 2007
R4
One of the keys of management is to ensure that you are not a bottleneck to the people with whom you work and from whom you depend to achieve results. One way to help reduce the bottleneck is to think of R4. This shorthand stands for: get the RIGHT information to the RIGHT people at the RIGHT time to make the RIGHT decisions.
RIGHT information-what information do your colleagues (peer, those you manage, and those who manage you) need from you?
RIGHT people-to me, this has two meanings: having the right people in the right places to be successful and giving the needed information to the people who can and should be making the decisions.
RIGHT time-data is absolutely useless if it is not shared with people on a timely basis. Having budgeting or other data that doesn't get to you until 8 weeks after you need it doesn't allow you to help make decisions that can move your organization forward.
If these three R's work, then there is a much higher probability that the decision will be the RIGHT decision.
Posted by chitch at January 5, 2007 2:21 PM