Hi Keith.

Thanks for the comment and the link.  Perhaps I should have qualified my post by indicating I am part of the "Executive Leadership" team:  that is in my organisation, which is hierarchical, only the boss sits above me.  He only answers to a couple of people who are remote from the organisation.  I should also qualify the post by saying the organisation has a medical role.

I agree your comments on personal management.  I have said elswhere on this blog that a missing component of knowledge management is discipline , and personal management is part of that discipline.  My discipline involves block periods during the day set aside for administrative and reading tasks.  As you suggest I regularly turn off all but one phone, but I don't have the luxury of only having one phone.  Nor do I have the luxury of only giving out one number, or one e-mail - they are on the corporate directory for all to see and use.  My e-mail discipline uses a folder and rules approach - all CCs automatically go into a CCs folder, and working on the assumption they truly are for information they get read at the end of the day.  I have a serial pest.  Their email goes into another a "Pest" folder, and rarely is read.  Still I am overwhelmed. 

I have no use for Doppler Twitter or other devices they increase my connectivity.  I don't want to be more connected - I want to be less connected.  I don't want everyone coming to me all the time - I want them to make decisions and take responsibility for their own actions!  Connectivity is paralysing me.  Connectivity is enabling sloppy and lazy work practices, and it shifts a lot of decision making unnecessarily up the chain.

If Pavlov's dog met Schrödinger's Cat perhaps this problem would just disappear!

Regards Graham