:: process ::

Tuesday went to a day long training about the company's new purpose, vision and values. I was extremely impressed with the facilitation but then I found it very difficult to focus on anything but the organisation of the content/event and delivery...Years of conferences in AIESEC and an attention to detail made me aware of the 'tricks' employed to get buy in for this new initative.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is a fantastic idea they are pushing and the employees world over have been crying out for this for some time now. A good solution.

However, I couldn't help but notice the action music played at various intervals to stimulate excitement. The fact that when asked to evaluate the purpose, out of eight questions asked, only 1 was negative - therby ensuring that the employees were selling the purpose themselves, old school sales trick...Moving furniture to hide fatigue....Workshops to discuss the benefits rather than implications of change...The little things...


I wonder how much I will miss because of so much focus on the process. Identifying the problem is the first step in the cure...

Hi Everyone. My name is Brett and I am addicted to process...

:: TGIF ::

There is a nice Indian bloke here who plays cricket for the local Basel team and assumes that because I am Australian that I must play too.

Now like all Aussies, I love the game. Love it. However, my love of the sport, like most in Australia, is from the safety of a lounge chair with a lager at arm's length or perhaps I light touch of backyard cricket with the weely bin as wicket...


We have booked Laura's flight and she will be here in July for over a month - can't wait. Monaco, Marseille, Rome, Athens and more to come...


I remember a Rotary Leaders camp I went on a few years back. One of the facilitators was trying to enter the Aussie equivalent of the SAS. He refused to have his face in any photos as he was not supposed to have any records that couldn't disappear. Now this gets me thinking, does having a blog mean that all nomadlifer's will never become spies? No nomad 007's?

:: its oh so quiet ::

it started with a jump to 1.3 gig on Friday, and this morning has increased to 2.056. Without much fanfare Google has increased its gmail storage by 100 per cent, within days of being a year in operation, and within days of yahoo just barely rising to the occassion to match gmail's initial offering of 1 gig...Gmail Trumps Yahoo, gains a gig


a few beers on saturday evening a mostly uneventful weekend, caught up on some much needed couch time...i love nothing better than getting a copy of my favourite magazine, still crisp with no creases or folds against the binding; a cup of tea and sitting on the couch and reading it from cover to cover...oh the simple life...