So Matt has finished the poem he wrote for me. (Backstory here) He wrote it after we shared some of our prejudices about organisations. Needless to say, I love it!

Here it is. And you can hear Matt reading it on mp3. I'm now supposed to respond to Matt in some manner of my choosing... that may take a little reflection...

Action Points

The Children of Israel
Were in the desert.
They cried out unto me
Beseeching me for a display of
My level five leadership.

Have I not given them manna from heaven?
And quails and bread and sweet water
And drinks with nibbles
After each quarterly update?

Have I not delivered them
From bondage in Eygpt
And offered them a Land
Of milk and honey and share options
Set at a reasonable strike price?

Truly they are a stiff-necked people
but I am the Lord their CEO
and employee engagement
is a key focus area this fiscal.

I summoned my COO to the Mount Sinai off-site For forty days and forty nights.
Amid the fire and the smoke
And the golfing,
I gave him my laws
And bade him formulate
A training plan.

I bade him write ten action points
On 2 slides of powerpoint
With handouts carved in stone.
Everything will now be right.

My COO returned to the Mount of flame
And team-building trust exercises
And told me of a golden calf
That stood without
The strategic plan.

The Children of Israel are many
And in need of rightsizing.