Comments on: Are Your Action Steps Too Complex? Or Too Simple?

By: evista animated

evista animated — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:13:56 +0000

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By: Mastering Productivity: Energy

Mastering Productivity: Energy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:59:14 +0000

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By: Hazel

Hazel — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:42:42 +0000

I agree that instructions, as opposed to project plans, may need to be extremely detailed but “descend to the ground floor and extract mail from the appropriate box for the company” is going just a bit TOO far, don’t you think. Bless her, she was like that with everything and drove me mad!! My instruction for “doing the mail in the morning” would be “open, note contents in book, distribute as appropriate”

By: glen

glen — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:54:30 +0000

That’s true. If you’re giving instructions, you can almost never have too much detail.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:07:07 +0000

Glen, I over-analyze things so I may end up saying things that are obvious when explaining something. The good thing about this is, though, is that it might be good for anyone else who might be looking at your instructions and they can just skip the stuff they don’t need or already know – this is one instance where too much isn’t much of a big deal, to me at least.