Rick Newman interviewed Tom Peters on the subject of Why American Workers Need To Toughen Up.
Peters says that individuals and businesses need to be resilient. He doesn’t have much sense of timing… getting resilient involves having resources. That involves planning and saving in the “fat” years when profits are rolling in. In the middle of “lean” years when things are tough and we’re just squeaking out a living, you’re probably NOT going to be able to do the kind of resiliency planning you’d like to have. Your “resilience” is going to be found not in your bank account but in between your ears and in your heart.
Sure, squeeze all you can from a buck, but this seems to be really stupid timing to be talking about “resilience”! If you didn’t know you needed “resilience” now, then you’re out of touch with reality anyway!
Fortunately resiliency isn’t just in ourselves… we can be more resilient if we have relationships. I found this the most helpful comments he made:
I’m 67, and you look in the mirror and see things differently at 67. The inadvertent message of my latest book was, be part of the larger world. Get involved with your community. My wife is going at 5 p.m. today to chair a board meeting of our local daycare center in Manchester, Vermont. She owns her own company and is at least as busy as I am, yet she finds the time to be involved in the day care center. In a lot of families there are two working parents, and day care is of shocking importance. Our local businesses would fall apart if we didn’t have decent day care. So get involved with your community. Because we live in communities.
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