tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post3292023278667787466..comments2024-01-01T11:53:37.594-05:00Comments on I Like The Cut Of His Jib !!: I really like this post from LT Ryan Haag about taking time to readMike Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04268185984165305315noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-45262644249471372142014-01-21T19:58:50.515-05:002014-01-21T19:58:50.515-05:00Had a CO who ordered me to rewrite our 30 year old...Had a CO who ordered me to rewrite our 30 year old refueling bill. I did. Three times. He told me there wasn't enough meat. I went to a friend on a precom CG and borrowed a floppy with his fueling instruction, did a name change and replace on it and submitted it for signature. Never heard the subject raised again.<br /><br />You're right. Nobody reads BS instructions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-7219619573360753012014-01-21T15:52:20.034-05:002014-01-21T15:52:20.034-05:00The "Congressional Approach" is now the ...The "Congressional Approach" is now the preferred approach in the Navy. No need for you to read the instructions before you sign them because no one is going to use them as they were intended. The only signature you possess that interests me is the one on my special request chit or my leave request. Thanks anyway, LT!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-34910816395142261772014-01-21T15:28:15.315-05:002014-01-21T15:28:15.315-05:00Anon, I take your points, however, the job is not ...Anon, I take your points, however, the job is not "to read and reply to all." The job is a demanding mission that devours time. It requires prioritizing how you spend time. Reading is on the list but it is not, the list.<br /><br />Also, as priorities are handled in order, sometimes low priority stuff falls in a crack. A reminder does not go amiss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-65512388423503808352014-01-21T07:31:11.546-05:002014-01-21T07:31:11.546-05:00Taking the time to read is important. Taking the ...Taking the time to read is important. Taking the time to respond in kind to what you have read is even more important. After all, isn't that what the writer of what you read was after? ANSWER YOUR MAIL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-14784358394377038012014-01-20T17:44:22.139-05:002014-01-20T17:44:22.139-05:00For email senders, a corollary to HMS' points ...For email senders, a corollary to HMS' points above is to consider whether that email really needs to be sent at all. Most minor updates can be consolidated into a single update or given verbally at periodic meetings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758747359382999584.post-30282670140586971352014-01-20T16:58:51.021-05:002014-01-20T16:58:51.021-05:00He has a point but he is making the wrong one. Lea...He has a point but he is making the wrong one. Learn to write well. Be concise. I hate the term BLUF. If you send me a pamphlet FYI, include a summary up front or I'll probably ignore it if it isn't immediately apparent to me that it is somehow germane. <br />When you get 1200 messages/day AND email, then yeah, you don't read it all. That was in the management of defense acquisitions world I was in for 5 years. I was a PM and APM. The admirals I knew were getting an average of 500-800 emails a day.<br />Sit in a senior captain's office with him going over common business and listen to the little ping and chime that come from his personal phone, his blackberry and his navy phone as each incoming message announces its arrival. These guys already sorted out all the crap with filters. Those are the ones that mostly need his attention.<br />Travel with an admiral and watch the near desperation as they try to get time on both nipr and sipr so they can stay on top of the tsunamis of information that get directed their way.<br />It's not like the olden days when idiot XOs at ASU Bahrain would probably announce to all and sundry that, "they don't read their message traffic" and that's why nobody handled your LOGREQ.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.com