Agree, great way to continue the metaphor :)

Feel free to make a suggestion! :)

Sorry you feel that way, maybe you should start your own blog and do with it what you think is needed.

Cheers

He told me the same thing, I told him just to publish the whole thing to the internet. That was last year in Halifax.

Good point, and TBH much of my thinking about this was informed by how the GOC Web 2.0 Guidelines came about.

I can email you a PDF :)

We might be dead by then ;)

I agree that he may not be particularly targeting bureaucrats in the sense of public servants; many of the examples he uses when describing bureaucrats are non-public servants (i.e. the Company Man).

That said, as a public servant I can't help but take it that way, what I didn't mention specifically in the review was how it left me feeling utterly hopeless about the future of the bureaucracy. Mostly because I think our organization is simply too large and complex to ever be a linchpin organization. The nature of our work begets a particular style of org structure which in turn creates a particular cost structure. I am thinking particularly of Shirky's work on institutions vs collaboration:
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_instituti...

Unrelated: Thanks for the links to the books, may add them to my reading list.

The book says the tricks is to go as FAST as possible! (which means limiting those distractions!)

Try a dictation software, I used one to dictate my MA thesis. It might help here too. :)