Ran in into Alan King, who we have blogged about before, and he was a bit full of gloom and doom. We all get a bit like this don’t we? Alan has many many contacts in Banking, Industry and Engineering…… as far as he can tell, we are all a bit “stuffed”, and possibly for a long time to come.
It can’t be all that bad? Can it?
So it was time for some Google research to find out who will be surviving the recession. Below you will find, I think, some very interesting resources. A “wordle” was a new idea for me 
- Small biz will do well
- A recession buster wordle!!! (A Wordle?)
- A very good explanation of sector, stock market and economic interplay via a visual and graphs.
- Five sectors that can survive. (Not what I expected!)
- Online ad sector should do well
- An Indian perspective
- A discussion on Linked-in
So whilst we are being “stuffed” some “stuff” is actually happening. My view on all of this?
We need to be more like speed boats than oil tankers. By this I mean, small and nimble, always flexible, always adapting and most importantly we need to be able to demonstrate value to our clients.
I need to read through these and will do. I came to the same conclusion today but via analogy with sports.
Yep, guerilla action is the key – not lumbering army.
I think it is also useful to imagine we have been hit by an earthquake and have lost a lot of infrastructure. We just start building again, together.
And we don’t replicate the past. As we are coming out of damaged structures, we start again building what we need for the next 50 years and use the damaged structures for whatever they are good for.
The speed boat analogy serves for getting done what needs to be done today – water, sewage, medicine, keeping people together – so we can start to rebuild as soon as we have caught our breath.
Is it this bad – increasingly it looks that way. And I would ask, will this philsophy damage us if it is not this bad?
My community site is beginning to hum BTW – so phase two now – keeping the momentum and adjusting it to feedback from the early adopters.
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