Microwave society

We live in a microwave society.

Do you remember having to warm your food up in a pan on a stove? This was before the invention of the microwave of coarse.
Do you ever warm things up on the stove anymore or even put a tea kettle on for tea or oatmeal?
Doesn't feel like it take FOREVER?

Unfortunately we have become a microwave society.
We have no patience and we want everything...NOW.

I see it in business, sports, our politics as well as our day to day.

Sometimes it takes time to fix things or to turn them around or to implement new ideas.

Look at Professional football, if a team is losing they fire the coach. That coach than needs to hire a new staff and implement a whole new plan and philosophy. It takes time BUT people want and yell for instant results and they want it NOW.

We have ATM's, the Internet- heck look at the Internet when it first hit the scene we had dial up but we were fine with it after all we had crazy access to things that we never had. Now we are inpatient when it take more than 5 seconds to find a site.

In business you have to constantly readjust, look at what new tools are available and what the economy is like as well as profits and payroll and you have to be able to change and adapt.
This takes good leadership and people that are not afraid to change.
It also takes time and patience and follow up.

Change does not happen overnight and sometimes as you are in the middle of the changes you find better ways and have to mold it along the way. You always need to be willing to admit that maybe your original plan was not completely correct , listen to others and change it along the way.

But most of all stick with it, be willing to ride it out.
Be prepared for the negative and the Monday morning quarterbacking because they will be there. Those in our microwave society have little patience. What you do find more often than not is that the Monday morning quarterbacks never really have ideas of their own but they always find the time to shoot your ideas down. These people exist in every faucet of life.....do your best to listen to them but do not allow them to slow you down and dampen your enthusiasm for change.

Patience....