The Global Executives Lament

Today's been a day of seeing funny, irritating and (sometimes) contemptuously bathetic Public Relations drivel. A day of repetitive scenes that I'd rather not have read about. A day to remember that, in my roles as a Corporate Exec responsible for global deals sometimes in the $1 billion range, the Reality Dysfunction of major Corporations knows no bounds.

To cheer myself, I've re-written the famous lines from Roy (Rutger Hauer) to make them more apt. Those of you who've penetrated the world of senior Execs – I'm sure it will resonate :-)

I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack Bids on Fire off the Shoulder of bad Strategy. I've watched C-Execs shatter in the dark of failed Governance Gate. All those moments will be lost in Corporate slime, like emails in erase. Time to fly.

;-)

 

Had an Idea recently? The pain of project approval

I heard a repeat of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee today, where he mentioned that if it wasnt for the fact that his Boss had let him do the work on hypertext informally – i.e. if he’d had to go through the formal project approval process – then he would never have “invented it” [the www]. The interview really resonated with my (and many friends) experiences and encouraged me to put this quick graphic together. Note, persons with no sense of humour (or Quality-Approval Managers) may not find this funny ;-)