Begin all projects with the end in mind. Use this mantra to keep your efforts focused and directed. However, it seems that a casual audit of the practices that go into corporate intranets illustrates that we still haven’t learned many of the lessons client/server taught us. Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, writes: “It’s a principle that all things are created twice, but not all creations are by conscious design.” Many intranet sites out there don’t seem to have the luxury of doing it right from the start. The need to deliver solutions ASAP is the busy work that prevents us from stepping back and assessing what we’re building.