Team building
A spell of quick work trips was the warm up for a much longer one. I am in San Francisco, California after travelling here yesterday. I am due downstairs in a few minutes to jump on a bus for what has been flimsily described as a team bonding day of wine tasting in Napa Valley. One of my happy places so the team building should be effortless.
We are in San Francisco for a couple of days timed terribly to coincide with this week’s APEC Summit where the world’s leaders are gathering to try sort out the planet as it collapses into chaos and combat.
A veil of secrecy has been thrown around San Francisco, but by the amount of police presence and security sat outside our hotel, I reckon I have Xi Jinping in the room next to me!
The city is also expecting thousands of demonstrators to descend on San Francisco, so it will be fun navigating around its streets and distinctive steep hills. The summit is all week with the serious stuff apparently starting on Wednesday but Biden and Xi are expected to share some dim sum before then.
We fly to Orange County on Tuesday for more workie stuff and then to Las Vegas on Thursday where the fun gets notched up a level.
A comment by CrayValley’ manager brought to my mind the ridiculous present nature of entry into the FA Cup at the round One level. His comment stated that his players came to play this important game after working a full day elsewhere. Without discredit for what his team achieved to get to this level in the FA Cup competition, tired working men can never match fully professional teams who consider it worth playing to win. As with their first game at the Valley, Appleton put out his weakest team and Cray Valley only accomplished a draw by default of an Addict player. Every team wants to be a “giant killer” but in practice that seldom happens. On the other hand it did benefit Cray Valley financially and exposed their team to their achievements and increased attendance at their games. So not all bad for smaller teams.