'CHANGE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO' - WHY THE "IN MY DAY" DEFENCE IS A LOSING GAME

A YOUNG PUNK, AND PROUD OF IT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCN6fiI1AM

I am young. I am determined. And sometimes those closest to me, and older than me, think I am making the wrong decisions. Follow the route we followed to stability and you'll be employed, relatively safe, can have a mortgage, choose someone who is an OK life partner. In other words, follow the herd. I love learning from wiser, smarter, older people. But sometimes, I want to tell some well-meaning folk, thanks, your advice stinks! Cos if you ain't there for the playoffs, you don't get to win the game...

These people, and it hurts to say this when they are family, even, well they're playing a losing game in our post-industrial, perhaps soon to be post-digital climate.

The game moves on. And the previous game wasn't much fun. In fact, in some ways it was just plain dumb. And the winners are now discovering that.

DON'T BE A DOROTHY DIXER

Our current breed of pseudo-leadership restates what they have heard before and what (more or less) worked before. Except, of course, that standard never led to real outperformance.

Dorothy Dix famously posed questions in Parliament without expecting a considered answer. She just wanted the "right" answer. As the current Australian Parliament indicates, the right answer has been trashed by complete, unequivocal under performance. Did you even bother to watch Swan deliver his Swan song last night????

'Change before you have to'. It's easier that way. BE IN A LEAGUE OF YOUR OWN. Because those who don't field the best players can't justifiably share in the greater portion of the rewards.

(Don't play defence, or sit on the fence). It's a losing game.

In my day, we play offence.