CHANGE!

With President-elect Barak Obama being inaugurated tomorrow (January 20, 2009) as the next US president, I think it worthwhile to revisit what I wrote on February 9, 2005:

What I learned...
...from a business retreat I'd just been on.. With the theme, "Cruising Into the Future", our president underscored the challenge of constant change that we have to deal with. From all the presentations that each VP had to do, I came up with this quote: "HE WHO RESISTS CHANGE, WILL CRUISE INTO OBLIVION" Think of businesses that have gone under. Many if not all have resisted the inevitable CHANGE that's inherent in the adaption of new technology. You've heard this before: We have always done it this way, we're not gonna change it now.

I congratulate the Americans. They face the future with so much hope and optimism that things will change for the better. It is not far-fetched for time and again they have proven themselves to be people of strength, determination and fortitude.