OMFG! Finally! He's gone! To the bar!

George Bush


Don't miss the inaugerat, eeh the inageratu...inauguratu.. Ah, what the hell. Don't miss Obama tonight ok?!

Tags: inauguration, leadership, change, Bush, george bush, Obama, Barack Obama, president usa

Obama inauguration: Prepare for a grand vision

Big day tomorrow. Everywhere you look you get hit by headlines about the inauguration. Even the polar bears here in Sweden talk about it during coffee breaks (we use them as rickshaw drivers now when the oil prices are a bit steep).

Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen) writes about Scott McCloud in his latest post. Scott, the only "cartoon guru" I have heard of, reasons about three types of vision in a presentation made on TED:

1. Vision based on what one can not see (unseen and unknowable)
2. Vision based on what has been proven (or has been seen)
3. Vision based on what can be, what may be based on knowledge (but is not yet proven)

That immedieately got me thinking about Obama's speach tomorow. What will Obama's vision look like? I don't think the content will surprise us very much as the road is pretty much set already from the campaign. Words that come to mind are:

• change
• equality
• freedom
• hope
• collaboration
• future (education, environment)
• transparency etc.
  

But how daring will Obama be? My hope is that he will be JFK bold and go for a vision based on what one can not see (no 1 above).

That's what we all need now in the financial turmoil that hangs over the US, and therefore over the whole world today. We need Obama to inspire people not only to hope, but to change their worldview in order to bring about a real change. Most of all Obama needs to inspire the business leaders of the world to live according to the words above.

If Obama can set the vision to inspire, let Scott McCloud show us all how to reach that vision;

• Learn from everyone
• Follow no one
• Watch for patterns
• Work like hell

You can bet Obama will do his part. The question is, will you?

Tags: change, leadership, inauguration, Obama, Scott McCloud, inspiration, vision

A poem to the bailout

Look at me, look up in the sky
Though famous and admired, I cheat and I lie.
My way to the top was covered in blood
Nobody knows I am really a dud

Look at my wealth; I have all you have lost
Greed is all good if you can deal with the cost
Leading by words that I never believed
Ooh, how I had my admirers deceived

Arrival to DC in my private jet
Asking for billions without a regret
Cheers to the bailout, my partner in crime
Even a failure is highly sublime

Tags: change, leadership, bailout, greed