I hold the view that for an organisation to be successful (i.e. to achieve it's goals) then it's people must be aligned to it's goals.  Real achievement comes from real alignment.  So how do you get alignment?

• Goodwill - people who actually want to get aligned
• Visibility - clear understanding of goals
• Knowledge - what's required to achieve the right outcomes

But what are you giving your people?  Putting aside the subject of goodwill for a second do people have a clear idea of the goals of the organisation and how they relate to their day-to-day existence?  Do they have the knowledge that is needed to act to produce the right outcomes?

Just musing...

activeFix for liveTopics. [img] Or is it liveFix for activeTopics ? :-) Matt and I quickly found out that the new 1.3 version of activeRenderer, with its new 'page' wedges for HTML link attributes to outline nodes, was thoroughly breaking liveTopics' indexes. The updated 1.3.1 version of activeRenderer fixes a couple of minor bugs, and handles HTML link attributes in a more liveTopics friendly way. [read more] [s l a m]

» My thanks to Marc for quickly & elegantly fixing this problem.  The new activeRenderer features are very cool so you can be sure that liveTopics will soon be exploiting them!

For those interested, the JIRA 2 Early Access Program opened today. As with all software projects, it was launched at 7pm on a Friday night

But now it's time for everyone here to go grab a beer (or 4).

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» Great news.  An already impressive package just got better.  Well done Mike & team.

It looks like I might finally have squashed the remaining bugs in liveTopics 1.1, what started as your run of the mill complex update spiralled into an endless cycle of fiddly little bugs.  But it's starting to look good now.  I'm hoping to roll out to testers very soon.

Between this and trying to come up with a decent pitch for business blogging I haven't been posting much.  I've been reading a lot though and making lots of new friends via Ryze.