...with Strategy.
Yesterday I received an invitation to give a keynote address at a conference in Colombo in Sri lanka on the 8th - 9th July.
When I passed it by the Dean of my teaching faculty he commented ruefully "How come I only get invited to conferences in Bournemouth, (a really boring seaside town in the South of England) and surely the timing could have been better. These dates might interfere with your holiday period".
I shrugged and commented "I just love the smell of mangoes in the morning......"
I refrained from adding that it had taken me several weeks of stealthy planning to engineer this invitation.