ROCKING OUR WORLD
It has become a cliché to say that we live in troubled times—we are reminded daily by the financial markets, unemployment, foreclosures, an unstable economy, and gasoline prices. This is the chaos we live in. And it produces the chaos curve—the volatility in our self-confidence that results when events outside our control rock our world. When we find ourselves running behind the chaos curve, we are in constant firefighting mode, reacting to the pressures of the day, not planning for the long-term future, and driven by our competition. We lose perspective. The urgent trumps the strategic. We may lose confidence in ourselves and find ourselves just reacting to forces that are largely beyond our control.
If only each of us had ...
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