# Checking what it gives you

Names, dates, figures. Three checks before anything leaves your hands.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## That is the problem.

*Picture: One large box labelled it looks right.*

Wrong answers do not look wrong.

## Three things go wrong most.

*Picture: A cut-away box labelled the answer with three boxes inside: names, dates, figures, the last in green.*

Check those three and you catch most of it.

## Every figure needs a source.

*Picture: A box labelled a figure with an arrow to a box labelled where it came from, in amber.*

If it cannot show you one, do not send it.

## Cut what you cannot check.

*Picture: Two panels. On the left a green box labelled you can check. On the right a slate box labelled you cannot.*

A sentence you cannot stand behind is not yours.

## Your name goes on it.

*Picture: A box labelled your name at the bottom of a document.*

Not the tool’s. That is the whole reason to check.

## Do today

Take one thing an assistant wrote for you and check every number in it.

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