Baz Juniper <[email protected]> wrote: > >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
Perhaps it's a good thing, then, that BW's acquisition of a new waterfront palace, er that should be "HQ", has been postponed in favour of leased commercial premises? Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
