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FROM THE PRESIDENT
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
CARIBBEAN SHIPPING ASSOCIATION
2009, December 30:
A
new year is upon us and with it comes the end of the first decade of the new
millennium. The new millennium is no longer new. All hype and nightmares about
our computer-dependent world crashing at midnight on December 31, 1999 seem a
distant memory.
On January 1, 2000 our world continued as it did before. And,
similarly, on January 1, 2010, life is likely to continue. We will put up new
calendars and plan for the year ahead. The question however is not whether the
world has changed over night but, rather, whether we (as individuals and as
operators of business) will remain the same as we were in 2009. Will we grow and
expand our horizons as managers and leaders or will we stagnate in the methods
of the past.
OPPORTUNITY TO PRESS RESET BUTTON
A new year gives us an opportunity to press the reset button. The problems of
December 31 will most likely carry over to January 1. Change will happen at its
own pace because of the many overlapping variables and situations that you are
powerless to control. However, you can control how you interact with your world.
You can change much about yourself and your modus operandi over night. In your
personal world, it is possible for you to change a lot in what you do and how
you do it, so that many of your own problems and faults do not carry over to
January 1.
Procastination, for example, is personal behaviour that can
be changed overnight, with the right strategy and commitment. Taking a different
approach to staff relations in your business is change that can be implemented
immediately. There is a lot of change for the better than can be done literally
over night, with a workable strategy and will power.
PUT A STRATEGY IN
PLACE
The changing of the year gives us an opportunity to review our work and the
results over the past 12 months and, in that context, to set new goals and
expectations. Let us not adopt the attitude that New Year resolutions are
useless. The idea of making a New Year resolution, only to break it in the first
days or weeks of January, is generally cause for humour. We can change that.
Individually we can (and should) set lofty but achievable expectations for the
coming year. And we should go further by putting in place a strategy and the
mechanisms, including your own will power, to achieve our goals.
As we greet 2010 by wishing fiends and colleagues a ‘happy
new year’ seize the spirit of rebirth the moment offers. Think about ideas and
strategies which can positively change the way you do things.
The Caribbean Shipping Association extends to you best wishes
for a prosperous 2010 and declares its readiness to assist its members and
regional maritime organizations to achieve growth and development in the year
ahead.
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