Everything expands

Some thing always seem to expand to fill the space available. Work expands to fill the time available. Spending expands according to the money available (and for many beyond the money available it seems). However, what about meetings? I've noticed in my office, that it doesn't seem to matter how many meeting rooms there are, or how many new ones we create, there are never enough.

Why is that?

We have so many tools that enable us to collaborate with each other now that I fear we are losing the ability to take decisions on our own. So we meet. Which is a shame, because technology delivers us the quality information in a timely way to allow us to decide and do. Yet we seem to have lost the confidence. Is this the blame culture impacting on business? Or is this just ultimate democracy?

Slum Dog Millionaire

I know most people will have seen it, and I know it will have made an impression on all those who have, however, I have to say I really enjoyed Slum Dog Millionaire. Well acted, and most definitely not glamourised. Tension was maintained throughout, yet the ending was pure feel good. I recommend it to you. And stay for the dance sequence at the end. Brilliant!

Keep it simple, stupid

Intranets became powerful because they were simple. And they're still powerful things, but we seem to have lost the simplicity. Worse than that, we've created an industry around the simple things and in the process, made them un-simple. As so often happens, we've lost sight of the things that inspired us all at the beginning. Some intranet managers and technologists now look upon the next wave of technology as a threat to the comfortable status quo, not the fantastic opportunity it is. Oh, how easily the machine grinds us down. Shame on us.