Terminal Conditions

摘要

This is a tale of perspective: your angle of view, where you happen to be, and how they inform your experiences.That I bother to write it probably reflects the fact that my favourite advertisement from the 1980s was for UK newspaper The Guardian, which took the same scene filmed from different perspectives. Each angle, each width of lens showed the scene to have very different interpretations, changing individuals from thug to hero, from victim to rescued survivor.My story starts a few evenings ago during a very pleasant dinner with an old friend with whom my company also transacts a little business. As the wine flowed the conversation came round to how concerned I was about our difficulties in recruiting and retaining an experienced project director for a challenging multi-billion dollar development in Indonesia.