Avoid too much reporting in your small business

Jun 30, 2011

I asked one of my friend few years back, “what have you been doing, you look tired”. He said, “It’s my #!s$#*@ boss, he keeps telling me to make reports. I am sick and tired of it. There’s no further developments but he says I need the reports on Every Monday and Friday and all.” The problem here is not the boss but the reports. But, that’s how people react when they do stuffs which are of little or no use. There are two possible solutions for this. One is to make sure that reporting is done once in a month or in fifteen days or the boss should have explained why these reports are needed? I have always been against with too much reporting from the beginning. Reports are necessary but if you dedicate your time in things which are already present then, when will you create something new. Planning is necessary but I have seen some people, they keep planning and end up doing nothing. You need to have proper balance with plans and their execution.