Kodak bankrupt.
Interesting that the company that was famous for one picture being worth a thousand words is no more. What can we gleen from it's demise? Well, for one, they didn't embrace fully the true business they were in. Huh? They still were into the yellow box film business when in reality, they were in the picture business. They didn't adjust to the speed of change around them. Know what business you’re in, so that you are free to innovate and explore, cast aside and add, embrace and enlarge. A great read is "Who Moved My Cheese."
IBM almost met the same demise a few years ago when it failed to realise that people were truly interested in a PC, notebook, netbook or tablet. In my business, real estate, it was just a few short years ago that everyone couldn't wait for the printed MLS books to come out. Many "oldtimers" dropped out of the business because they failed to recognise the importance of shelling out $5 grand for a laptop. It is far too easy to resist innovation and change because you don’t understand what business you are really in. As a result, you cling to old methods and programs by resisting change.
God will work out His calling upon our lives in many different and varied ways. Like Paul and the rest of the New Testament Christians, we are all called with the same glorious calling, yet, each of us has a different and unique outcome and application.
So today, take a snapshot, and ask yourself if you place the idea of calling too much on the thing we do, versus the One we are called to serve?
Interesting that the company that was famous for one picture being worth a thousand words is no more. What can we gleen from it's demise? Well, for one, they didn't embrace fully the true business they were in. Huh? They still were into the yellow box film business when in reality, they were in the picture business. They didn't adjust to the speed of change around them. Know what business you’re in, so that you are free to innovate and explore, cast aside and add, embrace and enlarge. A great read is "Who Moved My Cheese."
IBM almost met the same demise a few years ago when it failed to realise that people were truly interested in a PC, notebook, netbook or tablet. In my business, real estate, it was just a few short years ago that everyone couldn't wait for the printed MLS books to come out. Many "oldtimers" dropped out of the business because they failed to recognise the importance of shelling out $5 grand for a laptop. It is far too easy to resist innovation and change because you don’t understand what business you are really in. As a result, you cling to old methods and programs by resisting change.
God will work out His calling upon our lives in many different and varied ways. Like Paul and the rest of the New Testament Christians, we are all called with the same glorious calling, yet, each of us has a different and unique outcome and application.
So today, take a snapshot, and ask yourself if you place the idea of calling too much on the thing we do, versus the One we are called to serve?
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