We are often limited by our history. The lessons that we have learned imprint us powerfully. We often assume that what has succeeded for us in the past will always succeed for us in the future.
Much of that is inevitable. It's hard to imagine a world that takes our comfortable world views and completely inverts them. I can imagine that it is really hard for someone who is working at a newspaper trying to deal with the threat of online news. Yet that is the reality we are faced with today.
The theme of the GHX conference is "Shape What Comes Next." Bruce Johnson, the CEO of GHX, challenged us to collaborate towards a new, more effective healthcare supply chain in order to sustain the growing demand for affordable treatment. He cautioned that we should avoid "acting with yesterday's logic."
When I look at my boys adapt so quickly to new technologies and new ways of thinking, I begin to realize that it is much easier to adapt to change when change is all you have ever known. You don't have years of hard won lessons to rewrite.
The future will have many difficult lessons ahead for us. The only certainty is that it will arrive whether we wish for it or not.
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