Perhaps — for the benefit of both the people and the business — it would be best to set the systems up to encourage and enable a kind of dynamic balance in this area. It’s a real challenge for leaders to get right, I agree, but getting it right has the potential for being much better by any measure than some sort of simple all or nothing rule. “Flexible” doesn’t mean everyone always works apart from everyone else. Nor does it mean everyone’s chained to the cubicle every day. It means people who work together come together physically when that’s helpful. And it’s probably helpful more often than many folk are now doing but not so often as Henry Ford thought.

Yeah.. it was that kind of a Monday… my ughs were completely different but equally Ughy. Our dog ate half a previously kiiled porcupine…last night. I got to find it out this morning… yuck. She’s still not well. My morning including backtracking her to deal with the carcass so she doesn’t go back to it. Fun. Then while I was taking care of a friend’s kids, their dog had a major seizure… he’s ok now, but that was stressful. Then had a “dot” of grease splatter onto my eyelid while cooking dinner… it will be fine, but man a little tiny burn can sting! It has been just a weird, weird day.