Where are we heading to?

Where are we heading to? That is the question that keeps me busy lately. The USA and Europe are deeply involved in economical, financial and environmental problems. The enemies seem to be living among us rather than in far away countries. They are our next-door banker, or the stoke broker that we play tennis with or the marketeer that has just succeeded again in selling us backed-air for a lot of money. We are throwing immense amounts of good money after bad. We are keeping countries, institutions and corporations alive because they are too big to fail. Everyone in 'the west', including our leadership, seems very busy solving the short term problems. Our so-called leadership has one simple strategy; it's called 'cutting costs at any price.' All of us seem to be in the 'defense mode.'

In the meantime the rest of the world is overtaking us on all sides. We are not paying any attention. They are buying our bonds, shares and talent. We even help them doing it. Why? well, short term that's good!, says our leadership. Well, I'll tell you, that may be so when considering their bonuses and frequent flyer points, but it sure as hell is not good for the rest of us, let alone our children. It is kicking the can down the road while we can and one day seeing that can dropping down a very high cliff. By then, it's too late...

We need to start getting our act together. We need an 'offensive strategy' to get us out of the s... and back in business again. We need better leadership and most of all, we need directions and a fresh, attractive perspective.

At the moment we have the leadership that we deserve. Hence, we need to change. Once we do, we'll be getting the leadership we deserve right then. That leadership will be better in every aspect of the word.