Glass, Metal, Rubber

Have I mentioned today that Tim Sanders is brilliant? Yes, he is. I just finished his book "The Likeability Factor," but that's not what I want to share with you today ...
Today I would like to share with you some thoughts from Tim's recent blog post. Go to www.sanderssays.com to read the whole thing.

In the last few years, I've started to use a pretty simple system of defining each action item as if it were made of one of three things: Glass, Metal and Rubber.

If I drop an action item made of glass, something gets broken. It has a guaranteed negative outcome not to do it.

If I drop and action item made of metal, nothing gets broken -- but there will be plenty of noise and maybe even a dent claimed.

If I drop an action item made of rubber, it will will probably bounce either back to the tasker or to the right person. This is probabaly and action item that is either silly or not my role.