Chet Craig

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This short story illustrates to the reader a one work day in the life of the printing plant manager Chet Craig. The day filled with decisions, planning, scheduling, conversations, interruptions and search of solutions.
The problem with Chet’s ineffective time management is the fact that he pays to much attention and devotes a lot of time to the activities of low importance and low urgency. Furthermore, majority of those activities are beyond his paygrade and his executive status. He spends a lot of time on the small unimportant tasks that should be a prerogative of his subordinates. Therefore, he appears to be constantly busy however the tasks of great importance and urgency that has to be done in the first place are keep being set back. …show more content…
Rule 10 – The subordinates should suggest their own solution to the problems in order to eliminate upward delegation, so the Management could concentrate on important tasks, more relevant to their executive status. It seems that there are always unexpected issues and problems that come from Chet’s subordinates. By constantly dealing with those problems Chet having a hard time to finish tasks he already started.
3. Rules 18,19,20 – Delegation of work and ability to identify the amount of initiative recipients should take with the tasks they are assigned (LINK). Chet has to delegate the tasks to other people who also capable to complete them. By delegating he can save a lot of time that he can use in order to solve problems more relevant to his direct responsibilities.
Chet has violated all of the rules above by expressing to much agreeableness with his subordinates. Yes, he has an extensive professional carrier in the organization, he has worked in multiple departments on different job positions and likely has incredible professional experience. However, he should not be dealing with smaller problems within departments, that what are the department managers are for. Chet should simply learn how to say “NO” and focus on the bigger, more important problems and tasks relevant to his position and future wellbeing of his plant and the
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