Do it right the first time

"Do it right the first time" is more about attitude rather than intelligent. It means that it does not matter how smart you are, but whether you bother to try your best to do it right the first time. I've seen smart people spending unnecessary time and effort to troubleshoot problems that could have been prevented right from the beginning. The recent case is the good example. This case involved 4 parties, my company, my joint venture company in China, my external consultant in Singapore and my external consultant in China. There was a request to this consultant in Singapore to customize certain part of the software, and this customization is to be deployed to China and be supported by the consultant there. The customization is simple and if the singapore consultant try his/her best to do it right in the first time, there wont' be any need for such a long process of to-and-fro communication to fix the bugs. The main problem here is the singapore consultant never spend enough time to test and make sure everything is ok before deploying the solution to China. The consultant is smart, but his/her attitude is bad!

So, next time try to do it right the FIRST time.