The Strategic Pursuit of Opportunity in Honduras
Entrepreneurial opportunities abound in the essential Market Dimensions of Honduras
Just before Christmas, while ruminating on strategic thinking, Mark Safranski (a.k.a. Zenpundit) illustratively asked, What are some of the mental actions that compose “strategic thinking” or “making strategy”? His list begins with Recognition of important variables.
Recognizing the core dimensions of market stability–and understanding their critical nexus–is central to the conversation and narrative of current Honduras, a culture and country in transition. The confluence and collaboration within the dimensions of Security, Rules Sets, Investment, Infrastructure, and Resources work together to generate market stability. Thus, the ability to assess the variable dynamics of the Honduras market nexus–situation awareness (e.g., the nature and relative importance of each dimension, the relationship between the dimensions and their strategic environment, and the recognition of systemic “choke points”, “tipping points” and feedback loops.)–becomes paramount to the successful pursuit of opportunity in Honduras.
Embracing Distributed Intelligence and Crowdsourcing
Look around, it’s not just tiny Honduras. Globally, old paradigms are crumbling; New ways of living together socially, civilly, are emerging.
How shall Honduras–culture and country–move forward?
Opportunity might be the most valuable resource in Honduras
Opening windows of opportunity to reconstitute and energize the dimensions of security, of governance, of investment, of infrastructure and resources could create real wealth for Honduras.
Let’s hope we get that chance.
Structuring Wednesday, January 11, 2012, South Boston
Rediscovering routine
Teasing out a structure for this day called Wednesday. Out of bed at 05:45am, directly to shower. Dry, dressed, out the door. Coffee will come from Dunkin’, Central Square, and keep my hands warm while I ride the T to Broadway.
Broadway Station
Thirty minutes of pure social, until 7:30, when the work day begins. By 8am, I’m in the groove, reading, making notes, smiling inside and out… This is gonna work, heh.
Resolution strategy
“Don’t overreact to a lapse” is one of Doug Teitelbaum’s core insights to maintaining willpower. I’m all over it. The rest of this morning I’ll work up a “Precommit” for structuring Wednesdays.
As always, we’ll see…
Structuring Sunday: January 8, 2012, Cambridge
Rediscovering routine
Teasing out a structure for this day called Sunday. Walked to Starbucks, Central Square, for a coffee and the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Scanned Sports, Business, and Review until the coffee was gone, then back to the apartment for further reading, and more coffee. Outside from the kitchen window, the red-topped Harvard clock tower, iconic, marks the moment, ties it into Sundays past and future. I am learning.
So I read, and the narrative begets wonder, ergodic links to “What if…
Reconstituting hope
Willpower, end-to-end.
Be it resolved, Honduras
Where there’s willpower reinforced, there’s a way.
… we’ll see.”
Barnett, you magnificent dunderhead, I’ve read all your books!
"Your solution is elegant though ultimately incorrect."
Facebook is an inadequate analogy for “global community of strategic thinkers,” and should only be used lightly, if at all.
The winter of my discontent; a poem in progress 1
Preceding: Starbucks @CentralSquare
3:40am @myKitchen
They won’t go away.
They can’t go away, they’re part of the parade.
H is for homeless, a state of mind;
and also for unhoused, no roof to sleep under.
Hospital begins with H, too.
I is for illness, invisible;
not ill, but illness.
You see a green light, then go; but he can’t read the signal.
In his state of mind, that signal, inside the illness, is invisible.
J is for jail.
Jail, homes, and hospitals. Compare and contrast.
K is for knot. But you can’t hear it, this k is silent.
If knot be silent and invisible, he is background, lost in noise.
L is for liminal,
and a life of cute girls, who
go away on buses to
destinations, ergodically so,
where the flow of generosity conceives home.