by Dr. Denis Waitley
There's a Chinese proverb that is more relevant today that ever before: "If you haven't seen a man or woman for three days, look them over very carefully when you next encounter them, for they will have changed dramatically during that three-day period."
More changes are crammed into every day of our lives than our grandparents experienced in decades - and this process is just beginning. Every 15 seconds a new website is launched! Every 15 minutes a new technological breakthrough occurs! Every 15 days a new product or service is introduced, that didn't exist before! Consider for a moment that a musical greeting card ordered via www.bluemountain.com has more computing power than existed on the planet when the first satellite went into orbit in outer space.
Consider the computer's impact. Designed as a tool for managing complexity, it also adds complexity, just as freeways add more traffic. The computer enables us to sort, store, retrieve and transmit information with ever-increasing speed. But the faster data can be analyzed, the faster decisions are expected - and the greater the pressure to reach them. And the computer's efficiency is hardly lost on our competitors. They utilize them to produce goods and services of comparable quality, for less money.
The new millennium leaders will welcome change rather than try to resist it. They will have learned how to make change work for them rather than against them. And they will have developed unique strategies and skills that enable them to create opportunities from challenges. In response to rapid change, the new leaders introduce it in the form of new business systems, pricing, and marketing that increase effectiveness and efficiency, create new products and new services, lower costs and encourage ideas to enhance productivity.
Adaptability is everything!
About the Author
Dr. Denis Waitley is a world-renowned speaker, productivity consultant and New York Times best-selling author of The Psychology of Winning and The Seeds of Greatness. You can find out more about Dr. Waitley and his work at the Waitley Institute website at http://www.waitley.com.
