2010-10-01

Cover Your Assignments

Before I completely wrap this up, I'll leave a few more observations.

"Wall Street 2" does look like a remake of "Working Girl," doesn't it, main characters being about the same, all of them talking heads on a stick?

What does green really mean? Walking Lahinch or driving an electric car?

It doesn't matter who's in charge, somebody still has to do the work.

If you put on the uniform, you commit to the task the uniform requires, taking the consequences in stride.

It's not always fun to be alive but at least you have a choice of emotions to exercise. I choose to be glad to be alive, pains and aches a temporary diversion.

It takes a lot of support to keep a team undistracted while planning and implementing deep space missions.

Can you manage to maximise discount points in equipment/support purchases and make sure projects complete within narrow constraints without stirring a feather or making your presence felt to those who don't want to know you're there for them?

Can you toot your horn by not making a sound?

Where are negotiations best made - the golf course or the office putting green?

How do you define species preservation - the LHC, the motorway network, crop fertilisation, mass inoculation, or mandatory education?

I focus on clearing a path whereby a future version of ourselves finds many ways to make living spaces across the universe as we know it, learning to "share the road" (appropriate to the situation, of course).

Won't you join me?

Note the leadership changes in places like Brasil, North Korea and the United States. What does the unrest in Ecuador and the EU tell us? Who owns the gold controls seed production, water rights and, thus, food prices.

Look to the future with gladness and a smile on your face. The wealth of difference will astound your friends and family.