No wonder things go south when you least expect them, the main reason being, it is increasingly difficult to come up with original ideas that will revolutionize something and make the front page. Instead, we choose to stay on the safe lane driving carefully with the seat belt on while imagining rollercoaster rides on heavy metal soundtracks.

Management directives have developed from unrealistic ideas which were extrapolated to poorly described dreams leading to disastrous disappointments. No one is safe. And that’s why people choose to reinvent the wheel, they need the reassurance that things are getting started or at least appear to be work-in-progress. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Sinking ship or downhill ride, no stakeholder matrix or risk management toolkit will ever bring it back to life, hope is just a lie we keep telling to ourselves to avoid coming to terms with the sudden and very painful death of our motivation.

Ciao tutti, I’m off to Scotland to bread sheep!