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Ayahuasca said:
There's plenty of studies behind the psychology of procrastination, basically comes down to a lack of discipline or interest in what needs to be done.
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it's really annoying when having to work as a team to deadlines when folk start chatting about their most recent gym gains, "sure it'll be all right", with them planning to compress about 3 months worth of work into a single afternoon.
 
Ayahuasca said:
There's a lot to be said about leadership as well, not saying it's always the fault of management but sometimes it can be. There are a number of military books I'll link to later that tend to show a trend in the type of leader people will work for, not just in war but that spreads to pretty much all areas of employment. Art of War obviously being the most touted but it can be a difficult read and you need to decipher a lot of the text into your own environment, it took me 3 or 4 readthroughs to "get it".

If a sense of responsibility isn't demonstrated and there's very little accountability (which is now common due to how difficult it can be to get rid of employees) then the chance of employees having their work done in due time drops drastically. I know recently businesses have tried to work on this with productivity reports, but some of them are so vague or can't be used as a true measurement of the standard of work being done for certain roles.
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its tricky, i'm not a manager, not by nature nor by desire, but i always seem to be the only one who's getting worried about things like deadlines at the appropriate time (ie when there's enough time to get the work done) and i'm frankly fed up with it, it shouldn't be my job to do it, and the only reason i'm doing it right now is because all i care about is making sure the result is good enough that it isn't going to bite me in the posterior.
 
Kreeeee said:
A power cut almost made me miss the late deadline for one of my important pieces of coursework.
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this is exactly why i hate doing things last minute, because it takes just one little thing to take longer than expected or to go wrong and you've lost.

i guess its ok when the deadline's flexible but then your getting into the realms of wasting time.

for example during this current project i started on manufacturing a prototype of our design about 2 months ago thinking it'd take 3-4 weeks to get it done.

well it took 2 weeks longer than expected to sort out all the little problems it had but the important thing is it could have taken double the time to sort those problems and it'd still be ready to go. that's the difference between trying to pitch "yeah we have this idea for x but it doesn't really work but we're sure we can make it work" to "we had an idea for x here it is doing what we say it should do"
 
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