Now? How to pass the time?

# 4052

Sorry for the slow postings but everything seems too obvious.

About 2003 I was in a conversation with a Silicon Valley exec He said “Doug, would you rather we continue as we are for 15 more years and collapse then or try and change now and collapse now?” I responded with "Staying in a leaky canoe when there is no alternative is not crazy.” I think these both describe where we still are 20 years later.

People tend to assume that those on the front line of an organization are better informed about real conditions because they are in contact with people in the real world. I think that the chaos of the front line and the need for operational details prevents serious thinking. Perhaps we have to go behind the front line, to those somewhat protected from the daily chaos and the need for immediate tactical decisions that they are already in the process of working through.