A View From the Other Side

Here is a piece that I couldn't resist sharing from our fellow aikidoka blogger, Mark Walsh, over in the United Kingdom. It is called 7 Reasons Why I Like the Recession. This is not meant to diminish acknowledgement of the pain that recession brings. But, as always, conflict bring opportunity and Mark does a great job of opening our eyes to that viewpoint. Thank you Mark for these great points!

• The recession separates the wheat from chaff in business. Out of date training competitors with large overheads aren't doing so well
• The recession encourages creativity and the return of lost skills...like making and fixing stuff. People are opening up to new ideas out of necessity
• People are now questioning "old business" and the notion of chasing short-term profits
• People are demanding increased transparency in business
• Customers are demanding training that works.
• Some great people are being made unemployed and starting all sorts of conscious business multiple bottom-line projects on their own.
• It's a challenge to rampant IkeaChangingRoomstastic consumerism and fixing the internal with the external. Values are being questioned.

Judy Warner