{"id":2601,"date":"2017-09-06T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microingranaggi.it\/en\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T12:39:39","slug":"good-rules-for-a-good-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microjournal.microingranaggi.it\/en\/good-rules-for-a-good-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Good rules for a good beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and welcome back everybody!<br \/>\nI start immediately with a question: a potential client gives you an important order, asking you however to produce and deliver it by exactly half the time you need. What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m asking you this question because just before the summer closure, MICROingranaggi experienced a similar situation. We were contacted by a company for a very interesting job which we had to turn down because the requested delivery date was too tight in order to be able to execute and complete the work. A real pity, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that this type of situations is fairly frequent and, sometimes, making inconvenient decisions \u2013 like in this case<strong> turning down an interesting order<\/strong> \u2013 becomes a necessity.<\/p>\n<h2>People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8230; stated Howard W. Newton. In my opinion, this is an <strong>essential consideration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that it\u2019s not worthwhile doing a poor job in order to simply meet the client&#8217;s deadlines that, based on our experience, are excessively tight. Not even to take an extra order in a period of crisis. I think it\u2019s better to <strong>turn down the job \u2013 even regretfully<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative \u2013 implemented unfortunately by some companies \u2013 is to accept the requested deadlines, knowing they won\u2019t be respected. And to &#8220;run into delays&#8221; while executing the job (and perhaps with some lame excuse), thus bringing the delivery date to the actual forecasted date, despite the client&#8217;s will. In my opinion, this strategy is not honest.<\/p>\n<p>The other key matter \u2013 and I\u2019m referring above all to the sector of precision micro-mechanics that I obviously know well- is that<\/p>\n<h2>most of the times, the terms \u201cwell\u201d and \u201cfast&#8221; cannot co-exist in the same sentence: indeed, time is required to do a good job, which should be established by people boasting experience and skills in the field.<\/h2>\n<p>Therefore, if I was a client, I would doubt those companies that promise good jobs with quick turnarounds. Regardless of the size of the company being contacted. Indeed, a larger and structured company should have a proportionate clientele according to logic, therefore deadlines should always be correlated&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>What do you think?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and welcome back everybody! I start immediately with a question: a potential client gives you an important order, asking you however to produce and deliver it by exactly half the time you need. What do you do? I\u2019m asking you this question because just before the summer closure, MICROingranaggi experienced a similar situation. 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