One of My Work Mottos.

You never know how much work someone does or does not do until they are gone. This is a statement that I know to be true. I have not a single doubt that there are employees that I have failed to truly value until they have left either their position or the company all together. I also know that there are employees who are so good at looking busy and boosting about what a good job they are doing that you have no idea how much they have failed to do until they have left the company. I try to surround myself with good people because one person cannot do everything for a company and be successful. I try to not ever be too overly confident in my abilities and ensure that people know I realize there is something I can learn from each individual that I work with and that I am not a “specialist” in every area or any area depending on the day. I do pride myself in the fact that I try very hard to gain some knowledge of each employees position because I have a strong belief that a person cannot evaluate another person if they have no idea what the person really does. I need to know how things work, why they work, why they don’t work and what can be done to make it work. I need to know what happened if this or that happens and what the cause and effect will be in many given situations. With this need comes a vast array of knowledge about many various topics. (My friends say I am a wealth of little known facts & seldom needed knowledge) If I don’t know how to do something I will research with any means available to gain the knowledge I need to solve the problem. It is my own “need to know” that makes me not understand how an employee can boost about their knowledge, skills and education and then I realize that they either did not have the knowledge and skill that they claim to have or that they took no pride in their position and did not care enough to do everything the “right” was. Taking short cuts will only cause much more time and effort in the long run when someone takes over these tasks and tires to correct the past mistakes and do things the “right” way.
If you don’t have time to do things right the first time you will never have time to go back and fix it! This is my motto. If you take one thing from my blog that would be it.