Born 12-19-1951
Died 4-16-2008

Hawaiians have a way of saying goodbye to their deceased beloved unlike any other place in the world. A gathering of family and friends on the beach, a sunset sail, words from a Kahuna, the scattering of ashes into the blue pacific, the tossing in of flowers, (and in this case some beer and rum) folowed by the women in Don’s life taking a last swim with him, and then capping it off with dinner for all at the exclusive Outrigger Canoe Club. He had to have loved it all.

If you knew Don these pictures speak for themselves. If you didn’t know Donald Benjamin Olson, you missed out on someone special.

Aloha Don, we will all see you again someday. And, God Bless Kulani Fernandez for the 25 years of devoted love and understanding she gave to Don while here on this earth.

DONE! 1st Wednesday 8 AM Success Rally Jungle Fun
DONE! 1st Wednesday 10 AM Interview at Opal Fields
DONE! 1st Wednesday 10:30 AM Interview at Opal Fields
DONE! 1st Wednesday 12 PM appt. Minden
DONE! 1st Wednesday 3 PM Appointment Randy Shibuya
DONE! 2nd Thursday 11:30 AM Lunch Mary Flood at Plaza Club
DONE! 3rd Friday 9:30 AM Opal Fields Management Meeting
4th Saturday 7:45 AM Success Rally Hawaiian Accessories
4th Saturday 10:30 AM Interview at Outrigger
5th Sunday 8:30 AM Success Rally Opal Fields
5th Sunday 11 AM Appt. Coco
6th Monday 10:30 AM Interview at Outrigger
6th Monday 12 PM IT Appointment
6th Monday 6 PM Success Rally Surf-n-Sea
7th Tuesday 8:30 AM Success Rally Wyland Haleiwa
8th Wednesday 2:25 PM IA # 514 Fly to Maui
9th Thursday 7:30 AM Rally Lahaina Scrimshaw
9th Thursday 9:30 AM Pictures Plus Success Rally
9th Thursday 12:28 PM IA # 59 Fly to OAHU
10th Friday 9:30 AM Opal Fields Management Meeting
10th Friday 10 AM Meeting with Orange Roc
10th Friday 12 PM Meet Eddie Sherman at Longhi’s
11th Saturday
12th Sunday
13th Monday 8 AM Noa Noa Success Rally
13th Monday 10 AM Meeting with Stephan Sherwin Williams at Plaza Club
14th Tuesday
15th Wednesday
16th Thursday
17th Friday 9:30 AM Opal Fields Management Meeting
17th Friday 4:30 PM Success Rally Loco Boutique
18th Saturday 3 PM Success Rally Loco Boutique
19th Sunday Time TBD Fly to Las Vegas
20th Monday Wyland Las Vegas
21st Tuesday Wyland Las Vegas
22nd Wednesday Wyland Lake Tahoe
23rd Thursday Wyland Las Vegas
24th Friday Time TBD Fly to Honolulu
25th Saturday
26th Sunday
27th Monday
28th Tuesday
29th Wednesday 3 PM Loco Boutique Managers Meeting

Micro-Manage Your Success
Six long (very long) years have gone by since President Bush landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and announced, (and I quote verbatim), “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.”
 
3,924 members of the U.S. military have died since that staement. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed since that declaration and millions have been displaced from their homes. And there are currently more U.S. troops in Iraq than there were when the U.S. invaded with a contingent of other coalition forces.

This Blog post is not about politics or the war in Iraq; that’s just a great example of a self serving, pre-mature declaration of success. This message is about getting a job done, and done right. We would all like to declare victory early. Managers often times think they have achieved a mission as soon as they have delegated it to someone to do. When delegating a task, the arm of responsibility remains connected to the delegator. YOUR JOB is not done until THE JOB is done.

When you ask someone to do something, you need to check and see if it was done, on time and right! You cannot “ass/u/me” you did the job when you delegated it.

Some may call this “micro-management”; I consider that an over used term for “management”. Another well used expression is “You must inspect what you expect”. Not doing so can lead to failure and embarrasment.