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AKA, the "Wally Reflector", https://imgur.com/Db0c9eP https://imgur.com/Db0c9eP It's really easy for people to put stuff on your to-do list, reflecting even a
by ianmcgowan 4y ago
AKA, the "Wally Reflector", https://imgur.com/Db0c9eP https://imgur.com/Db0c9eP
It's really easy for people to put stuff on your to-do list, reflecting even a tiny task on them before you accept it makes so many requests go away.
Related to this for me, I generally make it clear that sending an email request does not mean a task is transferred to me. We need to have a conversation and agree before it goes on my list..
- solarmist 4y agoYes. You don't even need to be unreasonable. Just a tiny clarification that requires 20 minutes of work is plenty. Yes to this too! Conscious business taught me all about the difference between reasonable and unreasonable requests how to make reasonable ones. There's more pieces than I expected.
- halkony 4y agoScott Adams goes in more detail on this in his "How to Fail" book. He says that after Dilbert, he got tons of requests to meet with amateur comic artists. He said the best filter was to ask them to prepare a list of questions for their meeting and that filtered out 98% of the people who contacted him. He also noted that the people who actually did it would follow through and one such person was the author of "Pearls before Swine".