I often find there's a point in the waking up process where I find myself in a liminal "between" space, still in a dream but increasingly conscious of my surroundings.
As the sun rose over Widemouth bay this morning, I was still in a zoom meeting with people I worked with, doing the usual meetingy things, , when an idea asked to join the discussion. The idea said quietly, firmly but kindly, "you're missing the point here; please bring me into the meeting."
I pressed the "admit" button, but got a message saying, "you do not have authority to admit this idea to the meeting - you need administrator rights. Please contact the administrator." The idea was explaining to me why we were missing the point all the time this was going on. We talked about working from home policy when we should have been talking about the nature of the work we were asking people to do. If we got that right, the idea said that where it got done would become a secondary issue.
I asked who had administrator rights. The…
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