Bloody Hell - such negativity! I appreciate - especially as someone who has dealt with multiple bureaucracies over the years - the frustrations, but I am not clear why individuals poor experiences (which many people share, actually) should be allowed to hinder and drag down new initiatives and enthusiasm. My job entails battling and cheering my way through several layers of bureaucracy at once, meeting negativity, jobsworthiness, reams and reams of paperwork and ego-based wrangling all in combination with levels of ineptitude that would cause vertigo. But that doesn't cause me to stop doing it, or to try to stop others being enthused - quite the opposite actually! For my money real leaders, leaders who affect change and growth, are the ones who cheer on the go-getters and the enthused, support the ideas, take a punt on new thoughts. Of course we get dis-spirited and down hearted but it isn't in the failure that we show our strengths it is in how we manage those failures. So think on and look sharp!!!!
