End of Chapter

After being away for an excellent training course (seriously, it was. We all drank the Kool Aid by the end and I see some good changes coming from this and soon) I return to find many more blogs on the 23 Things programme. Excellent!

I believe that some of these are from part time colleagues at Cass, so they really are people I may never interact with in the normal execution of my duties (that’s rather a pompous statement I know but I do like the phrase ‘execution of my duties’, it sounds so pointlessly sinister). Hopefully the experience of us all blogging and going together through a course may bridge some of the gaps between sites.  For example I know there are people at NSQ that I simply have not met and it’s not because they are new – we just simply never have an opportunity to interact, work different shift patterns, attend different meetings, etc.

At a previous place of employment it was a very global corporation so you didn’t expect to know people in your team stationed in Israel or San Francisco well, but you still had to interact with them on a regular basis. This meant many, many hours on the phone which was the corporate business but not conducive to good working as it set up barriers. E-mail was the same. Despite being a (then) multi-billion dollar technology corporation they simply could not get multi site working and collaboration sorted out. Perhaps something simple like a 23 Things programme would have been better....?

After popular demand i looked but couldn’t find a picture of me looking like a member of the Geheime Staatspolizei, so here is one of me as a Bavarian. It carries a similar message but people don’t sing the Indiana Jones theme tune at me as much.