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Economic indicators for the global downturn etc are rocking the ?system? to the core, now more than ever we need to innovate rather than blindly continue to do what we always have done.

Businesses need to reevaluate where they are at, what capacity, scope and skills they have. Instead of running scared and waiting for the ?sky is falling? syndrome to kick in, they need to come up with their own answers to the challenges that lay ahead and tackle these with dogged determination.

I guess the same can be said of governments, innovate now so they can lead the way.

A possible example is the way the Australian Government is handing out what I will call ?recovery packages? allegedly a whole bunch of people took their handouts and went straight to gamble it away on poker machines? not very useful to some, but a spreading of the good will nonetheless. Innovative, hmm hardly but it was to be expected I guess.

What if the government had taken those millions and put it into ?capacity building? such as training small business, training redundant workers with short sharp and to the point sessions to give them options, and not just options that lead to longer course pathways? Imagine a place where people could readily brainstorm future paths to personal and professional growth, where business ideas could be readily explored and evaluated, Where open thinking paved a way to overcome closed minded ?that will never work? thinking.

Any time is a good time to innovate, now it seems we need to work on it more than ever, but let?s face bare facts, are you prepared or even trained to innovate? Chances are no? Perhaps now is the time to take matters into your own hands, to take positive action.

Think outside the square and come up with ways to turn the situation from a capitalist nightmare to a capitalists dream. 6 billion people with a dream beats 6 billion with a nightmare?