Nurses hand off their patients at shift change, detail by detail. Important things deserve to be said twice.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Handovers exist because the gap between one person finishing and another starting is where things get dropped. Saying it twice is not inefficiency, it is the price of not losing something that matters. Anywhere responsibility changes hands, information has to be moved deliberately, and assuming the next person already knows is how most avoidable failures begin.

Do a proper handover once this week. Tell whoever takes over your shift the three things they will wish they knew. When you pass a task to a teammate or a sibling, say it and then send it in writing. Repeating yourself is cheaper than the mess it prevents.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What important detail did you assume someone else passed on?

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