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Pam Slim, the author of “Escape From Cubicle Nation” will help you leave the corporate world and follow your dreams.  This is a noble and worthy goal for many.  However, working in the corporate world has many advantages.  In my job I work with many talented people from all around the world.  On a daily basis I may speak with a resource planner from Israel or a System administrator from India.  I work with people from Malaysia, Costa Rica, Russia, and China.  I also have huge resources available for training, advancement, and mentoring.  These are all things I love about my job.

Just as not everything is bad about the corporate world not everything is good either.  Huge corporations are inherently bureaucratic. Security concerns require that much of the IT equipment works against your productivity instead of for it.  Standardization, which makes an environment supportable often meets the lowest common need while offering low performance.

If there are benefits and detractors in any environment why not try to emphasize the benefits and minimize the detractors of Cubicle Nation?  My newest passion at work is to do just that.  I want to find novel solutions to minimize the impact that various corporate constraints have on my productivity.  This effort will combine technical, process oriented, and cultural changes to make a super productive environment. I will chronicle this effort here on this site with progress reports and how-to articles.  If anyone is out there in cubicle nation going through the same process please contact me.

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