On 15 Jan 2009, at 11:02, Adrian Stott wrote: > The (still highly recommended) book "Parkinson's Law" contains several > essays in addition to the one about "Work expands so as to fill the > time available for its completion". > > One is about how the completion of a purpose-built HQ is a sure sign > that the organisation to occupy it is about to fail. My experience > with corporate real estate suggests Mr Parkinson (*not* the same as > the TV interviewer) was surprisingly accurate.
Ah yes. Only last night on BBC2 we saw that nice Evan Davis play a clip from 2005 of the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP declaring open the shiny new UK Headquarters of Lehman Bros. Baz [working for an organisation whose current HQ was officially opened on 11 Sept 2001]
