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Tell me you didn't really use the White Collar Tsunami analogy (slide 52) during a presentation in Thailand. Wouldn't that be just a little tactless?

Posted by Matt at February 3, 2005 6:00 AM

Cathy - The VT weather this week has been the best I've seen for the first week in Feb. since I've live here ('65). March-like in fact, w/day after day of glorious sun, blue sky, daytime temps up to the low 30's. You must not be here, or be from here...?? I for one enjoy it! ETL in RutVegas, VT

Posted by Eric Lapp at February 3, 2005 9:46 AM

How welcoming are Tom's ideas in China? Is that a tough crowd to encourage wide-spread re-imagination with? I think the cycle of re-imagining, destroying, and creating is much more natural and encompasses the way of zen. Maybe China in the 21st century will evolve in ways in which the western world could never imagine because of their buddhist ideals.
Tom, please share your experiences in China with us! Can they dig it?

Posted by Dau at February 3, 2005 11:15 AM

In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl, how about MMC - Master of Moving The Chains

Along the same, lines, here's my favorite Josef Schumpeter (the father of creative destruction) quote:

"To act with confidence beyond the range of familiar beacons and to overcome that resistance requires aptitudes that are present in only a small fraction of the population and that define the entrepreneurial type as well as the entrepreneurial function.

This function does not essentially consist in either inventing anything or otherwise creating the conditions in which the enterprise exploits. It consists of GETTING THINGS DONE." (My emphasis.)

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, Schumpeter, Joseph A., 1911

Posted by Paul McManus at February 3, 2005 4:30 PM

Yes!!! We have melting in Massachusetts, too! The temperature hits the positive side of the Celsius scale. I can see pavement in my driveway for the first time in weeks. Eric, are you skiing in shorts?

Posted by cathy at February 3, 2005 6:25 PM

Cathy - Thanks, no, actually down time nursing a cold, and normally more of a Nordic nomad skier anyway, away from the crowds. But for those interested, there will still be a few more days of afternoon spring skiing conditions at the VT ski areas, looks like into next week even. Cheers. Eric

Posted by Eric Lapp at February 4, 2005 8:43 AM

I enjoyed your presentation in Thailand to the Bidvest Group. I am a great fan of yours. Thanks for the inspiration. There is no end to success if only one can re-imagine and re-re-imagine and re-re-re-imagine ............

Posted by Koos Smith at February 9, 2005 8:26 AM