If you want to be a leader in today's world, let me offer you a trick in ONE easy step: Step 1: Read Darwin -- or at least be able to quote one specific Darwinian sentence. The empirical evidence I offer for that statement are these relatively recent web pages (out of several hundred that are on the web), including two of Carly Fiorina's: http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/medcom/medlinet/Quote/tsld007.htm http://www.unisoncap.com/english/top.html http://www.wood.army.mil/ENGRMAG/PB5002/Ballard.htm http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/reinvent.html http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/invent.html http://www.governor.wa.gov/speeches/000404digital.htm http://www.doc.gov/eda/html/cjspro00.htm http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/0,1113,1902,00.html http://www.pumps.org/public/news/presentations_print.htm http://www.bnha.co.uk/corporate/misterhird.htm http://www.fsvk.com/bios/sf_burke_chicotel/0004_news.html ... among many others. I gather that there is a great sense of instability out there in the world, and as a result, a great uncertainty as to what to do next. The foolish conclusion of this new self-imposed management mantra would be to assume that you must constantly re-invent yourself and that what is past is no longer prologue, nor even desirable. Wirt Atmar
