Tea With Daisy

Its another hot and sunny day with a hint of thunder in the air, but a good end to a difficult week.

So what do I do - I have tea with a very lively but sweet two year old. Daisy wants me to eat sand, play pretend catch and talk to her imaginary friends.

In the hurley-burley of a busy day "at the office" one has little time to consider the philosophy of the things we do, but how often do we find ourselves doing stuff that has no more or less merit than doing the adult world of eating sand, playing pretend catch and talking to imaginary friends.

Eating sand, playing catch and talking with imaginary friends is like the times we respond to business colleagues in a rather off hand and professional way just to keep them happy. We agree to do "stuff" in the hope that they will be satisfied, for at least a while, and then we can get on to do something REALLY important.

Except Daisy does it all for fun!!!!!

I wonder what global shift needs to take place in our thinking to allow us to bring back the fun into the serious things we do. Sure, be job focussed, but lets have a lot more fun doing it.

Wouldn't it be just great if a S.W.A.T. or S.M.A.R.T. analysis demonstrated the missing element, the key to increased efficiency or the magic bullet of success lay in chilling and having fun.

OK if I were Chief Executive of my organisation for one day I could demonstrate my decision making prowess by setting the Senior Managers the task of bringing fun into Financial Audit Control, Project Risk Analysis and Monthly Status Reports.

Or maybe I should hand everything over to Daisy!!!