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I have had a rather long e-mail correspondance with a friend lately, that started from my initiatives on my "information diet". But, in one mail he wrote something that had me thinking for a couple of extra days, before I could answer. With permission, I hereby present you his observation:

An interesting observation with regards to IT is that I always think that IT-departments are very stressful. I work a lot with projects and it's always the IT projects that are the most stressed. And this in spite of the fact that IT projects are extremely structured through lots of models and methods. I've talked several times with my colleagues in the IT department and tried to understand why they're always running behind with their deliveries.  It seems that it is often the result of high pressure from the "customers" and then they give in and promise too much. Sometimes they don't even believe in the project plans right from the beginning. I think that's a very dangerous behaviour. I think that a lot of IT departments would be better off if they held back a little...

He really hit the spot, didn't he? Any comments?

Just a small personal comment on Seth Godin's blog entry about the three kinds of meeting. I agree on the three meeting types mentioned...

1. Information.
2. Discussion.
3. Permisson.

Very good distinctions ... but I'd like to see one more meeting type on the list:

4. Saying "I'm sorry" and explaining. This meeting occurs after you have taken initiative with the purpose of doing something good for your company, with reasonable risk, without permission - and unfortunately failed. The other party is normally the person(s) that could have said no to your initiative - or worse, have said yes but delayed it indefinitely.

As many bright ideas and initiatives are killed by Dr. Doom types less than 5 minutes after they're born, I suggest to aim for more type 4 meetings than type 3 meeting... no?