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Re: IMPROVING WRITERS' EFFICIENCY

Subject: Re: IMPROVING WRITERS' EFFICIENCY
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:15:47 -0500




Goober Writer wrote:

[snip]

False contributions to "increased productivity"
(IOW, these don't increase productivity...)

[snip]

3. Shortened deadlines.

[snip]


Sorry to be so snippy, but shortened deadlines certainly DO increase productivity. The job gets done in fewer days, which is about as direct a way of increasing productivity as there is. How does this happen? People figure out on their own how to waste less time. They may cut back on foosball, or they may cut back on needless rounds of revision, or they may put the screws to recalcitrant reviewers. Don't micromanage the writers' time, in other words; just give them shorter deadlines and let them figure out where the fat can get trimmed.

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