Yearly Archives: 2009

The transfer of the Administration is soon taking place in the U.S. and the Canadian parliament has been shut down for a time.

It is interesting to note the amount of media time that is being devoted by the leaders to publish ‘reasons’ why things happened the way they did. What I am referring to here is ‘justification’ and not authentic discussion or de-briefing. Each ‘reason’ is tempered so as to include just enough ‘confession’ that we nod our heads in agreement that they are being honorable by ‘fessing up.’

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I think we are on the brink of a huge transformation in how we perceive ourselves as ‘the economy.’ Will we go forward, or go back to the perceived security of yesterday? I wonder.

Could you indulge an older perspective for a moment? I know, I know, the way we are supposed to think is….”If you ain’t got the solution, you’re part of the problem.” I disagree. I always say that this kind of thinking has tended to keep folks from sticking their neck out, in case they are thought to be fools.

To be clear, I’m certainly not one to give any advice, and I do notice that some of today’s ‘experts’ are doing ‘consulting practices’ that I remember experiencing over 40 years ago. It may sound like new ‘strategies’ to those who haven’t been exposed to them. Know what? It ain’t! Is it just more of what we are familiar with? Is there just some kind of hope about the effectiveness, since it might have worked in the past?

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