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If someone else is responsible for us – our pain, or our joy, doesn’t matter – that means we are not responsible for ourselves. And if we are not responsible for ourselves, then we have no control over our future. If we have no control over our future, the future is hopeless, because every adult human being ultimately craves the responsibility, the joy, and even the hardships of carving our own experience out of the stuff of life.

Fight or flight syndrome leaves out an important – and destructive – third reaction. Freeze. Are you doing the business equivalent of the suicidal bunny routine?

There’s a lot of talk about how everything is changing. But popular analysis and reflection seems to stop just below the dermis of the issue, talking endlessly about jobs loss, the credit crunch, foreclosures, and the anticipated stimulus package. Not that these aren’t important issues, but given that we live in a 24-hour news cycle, [...]