4.2 Sample Lesson: Monitoring and Control
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Control: Common Errors
Control: Common Errors
Regardless of the kind of project you're working on, these errors can easily creep into your control activities:
- Emphasizing short-run results over long-term goals — you're always going to be pushed to make the next deadline, but don't sacrifice your ultimate results to impatience or short-sightedness
- Focusing on some objectives and ignoring others — let's face it, some things are easier, more fun or more interesting to track than others... every objective is important (if it isn't, it needs to be eliminated!)
- Across the board funding cuts — one of the greatest injustices of all, as this "solution" rewards over-spenders and penalizes the frugal task owners who have been good stewards of organizational assets... talk about demoralizing!
- Controlled items distract from those that aren't being observed to the same extent — “What isn’t counted, doesn’t count.”