I couldn't resist sharing the following article from yesterday's Washington Post entitled "Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages" referring to OBAMA's staff's findings in its first few days:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012104249.html
Are you shocked? First.....there's the news about Obama maybe not being able to do his crack-berry thing while shuffling around DC....then a whole new direction announced on the new basis for international security...."reestablishing American ethic"s in International Relations". Today he signed executive orders demanding shut-down of all our "Terrorist interrogation Centers" within a year and the immediate discontinuation of unlawful and unacceptable interrogation techniques. Fidel is stating he believes him to be a sincere man....Europe and the Far East are awaiting trepidatiously his plans on bringing back in tune this globally sputtering economic engine....and the Muslim world is gasping a sign of relief.
Well we asked for change...so we better embrace it now.
Somehow...(I don't know if its because I'm not daily involved with mainstream corporate America)...it seems like everyone's not firing on all four cylinders...driving with one foot on the brake and just enough gas to keep cautiously in motion...checking our bank balances more regularly...slowing down our shop-cart purchases and filling them with less "goodies".
Everyone's kind of waiting for the magic cure...to what seems to have been a sudden illness. Warren Buffet today stated that what we've undergone in this economic crisis has been another "Pearl Harbor" attack on our sovereignty.
And yet, Apple & Google blew through their targets have generated mounds of cash and yet the vultures are still bashing them for being ahead in terrible times. Can you understand this...two companies who have broken the mold...set their own rules...changed the game..and the bastions of business are crapping all over them because they are the rising stars of the new generation.
Which brings me to the above image....I had to recreate this from a story a good friend of mine relayed to me over the phone...(I think from a cartoon in Info-week).
Were are you going today? (Note: This used to be a default screen saver on Microsoft!)
This is so ... "passé". The new question to ask is "Which way are you going?". This implies the need to make a decision as to direction.
We have a new "lead steer" now...the herd will soon follow....where are we going everyone asks?
I dunno......but it has something to do with "green pastures" and a lot of it! Race you their!!
