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THE CREATIVE GALE: Tomorrow will not be like yesterday. This is no mere recession: it's a tectonic global shift.

Submitted by: John Warner on Jan 12, 2009 at 10:23 pm Tagged with: Entrepreneurship, Innovation Source: Swamp Fox

A few years ago, I wrote a book describing the lessons of my entrepreneurial experience, Swamp Fox Insights, which begins:

Ours is a time of profound change that holds the seeds of almost unlimited opportunities for those with the vision, courage, and ability to seize them.

That has never been more true than today. But writing A User's Guide to 21st Century Economics at Harvard Business, Umair Haque describes how the challenges facing us today have never been greater either.

Tomorrow will not be like yesterday. This is no mere recession: it's a tectonic global shift in savings, consumption, and investment. Today's macropocalypse is a rupture in the global economic fabric - and the next half-decade will be spent reweaving it..

Tomorrow's market leaders have new DNA. We've spent the last year identifying next-generation leaders - from the Obama campaign to Google to Threadless to Zara - and learning from them. They look and feel radically different because they were built for 21st century economics, not 20th century economics. They are organized and managed according to new rules; and it is those new rules that make the difference between surviving - and thriving in - the macropocalypse, or being vaporized by it.

The need for boardrooms to to reconceive and reinvent business was never more urgent than it is today - because the clock is ticking.

The Creative Gale
Between now and up to InnoVenture Southeast 2009 on March 24, 2009 and perhaps beyond, we are launching an initiative called The Creative Gale. Our basic idea is that the greatest economic crisis of our lifetimes is spreading the seeds of the greatest entrepreneurial explosion of our lifetimes. The economic shock is so great that more existing organizations are open to being reinvented, and more highly talented people are spinning out to start new ones, than at any other time in our careers.

The Creative Gale will help organize the infrastructure of entrepreneurial organizations and service providers on which existing organizations can be reinvented or new ones launched. We will launch The Creative Gale website in a couple of weeks, and then to have a tour of cities in the Carolinas and Georgia in the weeks leading up to InnoVenture. In each city we hope to have a 2 hour meeting where we pull together that community's entrepreneurial infrastructure to think through how to help support the entrepreneurial explosion that can occur in that city. The tour will wrap up at InnoVenture on March 24, with this just being the beginning of a movement that will connect relationships across the southeast and even around the world.

We are looking for leadership, so contact me if you would like to be a part.

Carpe Diem!