Today I felt a very, very real and concrete sense that the world has changed. In the midst of a multi-lateral complex of crises there’s something to get very excited about: the world is embracing and getting on with change. Previously we’ve left arcane market forces to sort things out. We’ve trusted the City to pull itself up by its hand-tooled bootstraps through some mysterious process of fiscal self-medication.
I want to say that I’m proud of Gordon Brown. He’s leading the world. He’s galvanising and pulling other leaders together. He’s leading the drive for radical transformation of the whole financial system. Think of that – a man standing up and saying “The entire global business system doesn’t work. Let’s build a new one.” Wow.
It seemed like today was the day when it really sunk in. And it was there all day for me. My clients were all really getting on with dumping what’s not working for them and creating something new. I’ve even noticed myself doing it. I’m discarding systems that don’t work for me and making new ones that function as I want them to. Today I created a couple in the area of preparing for the day ahead, for example. They definitely made the day run a lot smoother.
The politicians and the money men are the scapegoats of last resort when we’re looking for someone to blame for our own inertia. Even they are making radical changes. So what better time could there be for us to do the same?
