Leibowitz: Thoughts for the holidays

At holiday time, it’s customary to think about what’s happened during the year gone by and what to hope for (or brace for) in the next. In business, this practice yields self-assessment and perspective on the forces, both within and beyond our control, that will influence the future. 

Today, I focus on the prospect of change out of our personal control but perhaps within the control of our leaders, political, judicial, and commercial. We have just come through an election season that the ads promised would be the most significant in history. Now that the campaign is over, half the population seems eager to experience significant change in Washington; but the other half seems to dread it and to desire to frustrate the very change that a small majority voted for.