Posted in Main on April 19th, 2006 No Comments »
It was the best of vendors, it was the worst of vendors, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness (apologies to Charles Dickens). It’s not often that
I’m left speechless by intransigent stupidity (well, actually, I’d gone beyond speechless - to frothing at the mouth). Let me elaborate… As some of you would have
read, my almost 17 year old son, Zahan came back to live with us after having spent 5 years in Chicago. In the process of setting him up for life (and no it’s not a
sentence) in Oz, we said we’d buy him a mobile phone here.
Posted in Main on April 13th, 2006 No Comments »
The graveyard is full of indispensable people! Had a very interesting
situation last night. We were running a facilitation for a client and his staff.
Our client (let’s call him Bob) wanted to bring his team together to discuss
his vision for his business (in the health care area) and have this staff buy
in and contribute to making the business a “happy and productive
environment for both his staff and his clients”. We’d arranged for a 3 hour
meeting after hours which included dinner. Before we even started his
main admin person (who believes she’s indispensable and runs the
practice) loudly proclaimed that she was going to come, but not
contribute! She’d even