Keep your eye on the ball.

When I worked, whenever anybody came up with an idea, the acid test always was - what are we here to do, and does this help us do it better? If the answer was "no" then however brilliant the idea, it got shelved. It's too easy to get dazzled by a great idea and spend a lot of time and money on it, and only then realise that it hasn't increased your productivity or efficiency one jot - maybe even had a negative effect on it. This came to mind on hearing all the criticisms of the pitch at Wembley, and the news that it will almost certainly have to be relaid for I think it's the eleventh time in just under three years. Clearly those who designed the stadium didn't follow the acid test and ask themselves - what was the stadium for? The answer of course would have been primarily as a venue for football matches of one sort or another, but obviously they got carried away by the cleverness of their design and failed to realise that the integrity of pitch should have been their primary concern and the stadium designed around that. Too late now, I'm afraid.