Is this slowdown real?
I don’t mean to be crass here and I know that I’ve asked this question before, but I have to wonder whether we are experiencing as deep a slowdown as the media would have us believe.
Perhaps it hasn’t reached my part of the software industry yet but right now I’m working with four companies who are all doing incredibly well. They’ve all had great years and are looking forward to a better year. I have to balance that by saying that I’ve also got contacts in my network who have been hit by some real problems – but most of them are really closely tied to the investment banking market.
But most surprising for… Continue reading
What Slowdown?
I was discussing the economic slowdown with some friends over the weekend. We were trying to predict the likely depth, length and impact but we came to the conclusion that logic and a sound understanding of economics alone couldn’t help. You’d need to apply complex chaos psychology first. The issue, we realised, is that whilst people anxiously focus on the harsher trading conditions, we’re not focusing on the positives – the things that will bring us out the other side.
I’m not going to suggest that all we need to do is shut our eyes and wish it away but if we stop anxiously focusing on the negatives, we can turn a bad situation into a better… Continue reading
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