Handling a man of precision can really make me vomit blood. Even producing the 1st draft, he needs to be very precise???? Now perhaps the way (I can think of) to deal with it, is:- give him a deadline and hack care him all the way. When deadline comes and nothing is produced, then you start to wack him left right in the centre ---> for wasting so much time on trying to be macho.
My idea of 1st draft is really "Give me a skeleton of what you have and let's work on the skeleton and meat it up." 2 brains are better than 1.
Call me lazy or whatever...things that are subjected to changes, esp when you know that whatever you are going to submit will be subjected to a lot of editing, see no point in cracking too much brains and efforts in it. Ultimately, the entire piece of work that you spent days and nights doing will be deemed as rubbish and discarded to the bin --> wouldn't this cause a drop in your morale?
The other school of thoughts will be:- give it your best shot the 1st time to minimise any re-works. That is the style of the man of precision.
So which school of thoughts do I belong to?
Answer is both. And whichever school of thoughts I adopt depends largely on my target audience.
If my audience is an MCP/autocratic, the 1st school thought will hold. Give him a skeleton of what I have and brainstorm. Bcos MCP has their own very UNIQUE ways of doing things. In their own ways or perspective, they always deemed themselves as correct. So now what becomes of the verdict? Winner always goes to the most argumentative ---> MCP. So shut up and get your butt going and get him to give you the ideas of what he wants out of it rather than you crack your brains day and night, eventually to know that all your ideas will be deemed as useless.
If your audience belongs to the democratic, then I will of course work hard to give it my best shot. Once and for all. Because I know this is the group of audience who will appreciate my ideas.
My idea of 1st draft is really "Give me a skeleton of what you have and let's work on the skeleton and meat it up." 2 brains are better than 1.
Call me lazy or whatever...things that are subjected to changes, esp when you know that whatever you are going to submit will be subjected to a lot of editing, see no point in cracking too much brains and efforts in it. Ultimately, the entire piece of work that you spent days and nights doing will be deemed as rubbish and discarded to the bin --> wouldn't this cause a drop in your morale?
The other school of thoughts will be:- give it your best shot the 1st time to minimise any re-works. That is the style of the man of precision.
So which school of thoughts do I belong to?
Answer is both. And whichever school of thoughts I adopt depends largely on my target audience.
If my audience is an MCP/autocratic, the 1st school thought will hold. Give him a skeleton of what I have and brainstorm. Bcos MCP has their own very UNIQUE ways of doing things. In their own ways or perspective, they always deemed themselves as correct. So now what becomes of the verdict? Winner always goes to the most argumentative ---> MCP. So shut up and get your butt going and get him to give you the ideas of what he wants out of it rather than you crack your brains day and night, eventually to know that all your ideas will be deemed as useless.
If your audience belongs to the democratic, then I will of course work hard to give it my best shot. Once and for all. Because I know this is the group of audience who will appreciate my ideas.
