Web Worker Daily: "If you read Aliza’s post outlining the five best web working lessons she’s learned so far, you might have noticed a trend: all of those lessons were focused on control.
For the web worker who works remotely, relies on someone else’s technology, and/or needs to coordinate disparate, diverse inputs to some kind of timeframe and standard of quality, control is always going to be an issue."
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Out of all the advice given in this article, the number one that applies to us (simply because it's the biggest leasson all of us need) is "the key is to know and accept the point where your responsibility ends." I think it's hard for a lot of us to not to get involved with each other's work, especially during tech, when things are going wrong. It's seems to be in most of our nature to try to force some form of leadership on a department that is not successfull at executing their task. In theatre, everything is uncrontollable to a degree. We just happened to get lucky most of the time and feel like we are in control.
There's a central theme in this article- PLAN PLAN PLAN. it talks about always planning ahead, planning for every contingency, etc. As managers, particularly in the theater, where things change rapidly, we need to plan for those changes to every extent possible. Laying out everything the night before hand, reconfirming everything, etc. Another interesting point the article brings up is that of when to take on more responsibility. I would love more insight into this tip, because whenever i seem to do that i either piss people off, or i end up in charge of everything. Neither of those are good places to be. how does one find a balance of how much responsibility over a project they should have?
I feel like a huge detail they just ignored was "Finish things early." If you plan to get finished long before a deadline, then no matter the act of God, you should be able to reorganize and get back on track. I know I'm definitely not the person that should be saying this, but I know that when I do things well in advance, those unforseeable struggles never seem to be much of a hiccup.
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