How do you know?
I was speaking to an overseas friend this morning while T and I sat on the screen porch having our tea and breakfast. He said he was having a hard time at work because management kept layering on nebulous goals and then changing the game plan and stressing everyone out over making their numbers. I said these are tough times. But I don’t think anyone is unscathed.
I met a woman the other night at Swirl who owns her own store on Magazine Street, she told me before Katrina she just made money, then after Katrina, she had to strategize and claw and claw to make a living, and now post Gustav, post Ike, she’s not sure if she will even have a business next year.
I see my friends who own small businesses working harder than ever to earn a dollar. I know the stress of the corporate world first hand. But isn’t it true that it is in these harder times when true creativity and innovation surfaces?
Or are we all just spinning around on a hamster wheel – and the true nuts are the ones making the wheel go faster?