How Dialogue and Collaboration can Help Accelerate Change.- In his State of the State Address, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland talked about what the state has been able to do and continues doing through dialogue and collaboration. Especially compelling is what Ohio’s public education system is doing to "reconceive" their educational system.
It is time to Stand for Change! As I write this, Barack Obama is four days away from his inauguration as president of the United States. He ran on a platform of Change and Hope. Today’s leaders also need to think about hope, action, and change.
Today, as reported in the New York Times, he again talked about change, returning to the now familiar theme. “It’s not too late to change course, but only if we take dramatic action as soon as possible,” Mr. Obama said, speaking to workers in a suburb of Cleveland, pitching his economic recovery plan.
What might have been a catastrophe in New York was averted by a pilot’s quick thinking and deft maneuvers, and by the swift collaboration of near rescue boats, a combination that witnesses and officials called miraculous.