Attention to Detail

Attention To Detail – Don’t Become The Prey!

By Brandon W. Jones on August 3, 2012 4

As a leader, it is essential that you are honest and have integrity. You must do all you can to be upfront and honest in your conduct, especially when dealing with your customers. Part of being honest means that when you make great claims, you must have the details and documentation to back them up.

Pay Attention To Detail

Whether or not your claims are true, if you don’t have details and documentation, people will be skeptical and may not believe you. You can’t just make great claims with nothing to back them up. Attention to detail and documentation are extremely important.

My Experience

Recently, I had a very interesting and potentially scary experience. Over the past several months my wife and I have been trying to refinance our home in Carson City, NV. We went to several different lenders and one after another denied us for one reason or another. All cases, however, were tied to the fact that we have excellent credit and a perfect payment history.

Loan Modification

About a month ago we received a phone call from a loan modification company, Direct Mortgage Counseling, directmortgagecounseling.org. They said that they could modify our loan and give us a new great loan (30 year fixed, 2% interest, reduced principal). We were somewhat skeptical because the loan modification seemed too good to be true. We did some research and found that they had the proper business licenses to do this type of work. That gave us enough confidence that we gave them a few of our documents, so they could give us additional information.

Once they received our few documents, they put together the loan modification paperwork. From there, they requested quite a bit more information (basically every financial document we had) so they could finalize our loan modification. Since I have experience writing legally binding contracts, I made sure I read through their contract completely before I signed it. I was especially careful because I was skeptical of them from the start.

This Week’s Top 5 Leadership Posts

By Brandon W. Jones on March 7, 2012 3

Each week I write a post about the top five leadership posts I find because each blogger has their own niche. In the leadership world there are many very successful bloggers that blog on a daily or weekly basis. They have developed a prominence in their particular area of expertise.

I write my own blog about leadership, in addition to following blogs from others about leadership. Since I review leadership blogs on a weekly basis, I decided to highlight five leadership blog posts that discuss relevant leadership topics. Each of the bloggers is an independent blogger that doesn’t represent a company or other organization.

The Difference Between Management And Leadership by Bret L. Simmons

In the new chapter to the paperback edition of his book, Good Boss, Bad Boss, Bob Sutton asserts that there is a difference between management and leadership, but focusing on it is dangerous (p, 263). He concurs as I do with Warren Bennis that “managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.” Bob thinks this distinction is accurate; however, focusing on it is dangerous.

Brandon’s Thoughts
This is a great blog that explains some of the differences between managers and leaders. Leaders need to look at the big picture of the organization and identify the direction they want the organization to go, while at the same time maintaining humility and the ability to do the important core roles and responsibilities of the company in their day to day roles. Leaders must also pursue education through all facets of their career no matter what their current responsibilities are. [Read more…] about This Week’s Top 5 Leadership Posts

Paying Close Attention To Detail

By Brandon W. Jones on June 20, 2011 0

I am an engineer and have a master’s degree in business administration. Through my work on various work and school related projects I have found that attention to detail is very important. In the professional world, there are people that pay close attention to detail and there are those who don’t. Those that pay attention to detail tend to be more successful because they don’t miss steps or overlook details of their work.