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Just finished Patrick Lencioni's book Death By Meeting - a fast read (theoretically) which dissects just why ‘the meeting’ is so unproductive, boring and generally viewed as the ‘necessary evil’ in an organization. The central thesis is that meetings lack: drama and contextual structure.  

I want to talk about Drama [cue the Mary J Blige] 

It's not about whether you are right or wrong, it's about whether or not it is working. The morality behind our mission, right we are trying to wrong, or our unshakeable belief in our product or mission cause us to do what is right but often leads us to ignore what works all the time.

Go to http://bodog.com/ and you'll see the image to your left. Bodog is an online gaming company, fully Canadian owned, with no cash holdings, no liscencing, or presence in the USA and yet - our friends at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement decided they didn't like what BoDog was doing and 'virtually siezed' their website.

"Everything's real-time"  says Vivek Ranadive in a raspy voice with a thick, singsong accent, emphasizing certain vowels unexpectedly, so he sounds a little like an Indian Christopher Walken.

I've been thinking a lot about inducing thirst lately. How we go about try to convince people they are "thirsty" for the product you're selling - anything from a moral system or ethics right through to donation systems. It [almost] never works but we still keep trying. The 'non profit' service industry (ie.