Bedtime Reading

I feel asleep soundly reading GIE Foreign Affairs. It was glorious. This morning, with coffee in tow, I pounded through the rest. There was one line that stuck out the most to me from that first piece. It was talking about how innovation today is more than coming out with a new product. Innovation could be a better way to get said product to customers, or a better way of working with partner firms to create products more efficiently. From the consumer point of few, this isn't something you would typically think of. High-school and college kids are more concerned about when the Y-Box or PS4 is going to be released, and not so much about how Sony may have improved their factory efficiencies so that a product cycle that used to take 4 hours now only take 20 minutes.

I had a meeting with my high school's Chief Trust and Compliance Officer after I got caught smoking on campus.

"Did you know that last year the world produced more transistors than grains of rice, at lower cost?" This blew my mind.

Sam Palmisano made a comment that I spoke on in my paper that was due today. His fourth challenge was winning over the hearts and minds of employees of all levels. Change needs to be bought into before it can be implemented. People have a natural tendency to fear what is different and shy away from change. One's comfort zone or security blanket is very difficult to let go of, and it is and will continue to be a great challenge to convince people that change is necessary.