Article January 10, 2000 Issue

Until the job is really done

By Warren Bolon

You've worked countless hours on a project—sweating all the details involved in concept development, approval, planning, testing, organizing, and finally, the doing.

That long-awaited product launch is now underway. The new marketing package is at the shipper. The building is ready for the inspector's final walk-through. Total reorganization of your company is 99 percent done. That new Web site is already getting thousands of "hits." Negotiations are complete; just need signatures on the agreement. Your publisher said "two thumbs up" on the manuscript. (Hey, time to delete the dozen draft versions on the computer.)

The physical and intellectual labor may be over; but the the work is hardly finished.

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