Hello Everyone,

Not sure who reads these blog-things any more but having started the week with a talk to the NHS, then J W Morris, and J T Morgan, in the same day with the BBC and on Thursday gave a workshop/debate with the Chartered Management Institute I'm now very, very hot. Not in the wanted, brilliant sense, but temperature. I'm in USA, Washington to be precise and its blinking hot, 104 F.

We tried to work today in a room without air con....nope, impossible. I've drunk loads, perspired more and feel awful. However, I was given a gem of information from a CEO who wanted to explain why she understood what DNA was about but just couldn't see how she could do it..... it goes somewhat like this;

"I lost my house keys and was searching for them on my hands and knees in the road when a young man came over and asked 'what you doing miss'. I replied I'm looking for my keys. He then asked 'where did you loose them in the road'. I replied that I hadn't lost them in the road but in the field over there. He looked at me strangely and asked 'why are you looking for them there then?' I said because there is a street light here and not over there"

What she was trying to tell me was that whilst most CEO's understood that the tools, methods and systems they use where 'wrong' they gave 'short-term' results. Research and management schools seem to also concentrate on the lighted areas and fail to search in the dark. She went on to explain that it just  gave more 'disappointments' to people in the long term.

Paul....very hot.....