Staying Current

I've been attending and presenting at a conference for the past two days. As is typical, we heard from a couple different Big Deals on What's New. Apparently, the new thing now is to go back, to jump back in the Box.

Now, last year, we learned the World is Flat. Previous to that, we learned Not to Sweat the Small Stuff, Who Moved our Freakin' Cheese and the Seven Steps to becoming a paragon.

Of course, at the background to all these comments is the apocalyptic notion that India and China and Sri Lanka are leaping forward of us and This Solution will fix our problems. We've heard about the Gap and GM and how they have failed us as Americans and the new world order is filled with Toyota and some call center in New Delhi.

Frankly, I've decided I don't want to be in the box, out of the box or beside the box. I want a new box where people aren't paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to come up with corporate b.s. and sell us all on their new non-revolutionary revolution.