Reflections... reflections

As customary, Im back to my old self reflecting on the past 4 Decembers of my life. But before I outline, i would like to make a laundry list of the blessings I have received all these while.
- Decent house
- Family sedan
- Healthy kids
- Safe travel for my 1st son outside the country
- Secular job promotion handling global affairs
- Social duty of the highest order!

But unlike most reflections,what I would do now is to look back at my thoughts every december for the last 4 years and determine if there is any trend or pattern. Here they are:
1. Why is there a countdown service at the church? And does it matter?
2. On the importance of leaders behavior -both on and off work - seeing is believing.
3. Certainty in an uncertain time - of the turbulent 2008 that saw the demise and collapse of the biggest bank in history.
4. Social duty (2nd career) of the highest order - on this years assignment at our religious order!

Hmm, pretty decent accomplishment. Not without a help from my maker!!

Homestretch

Whew! It IS December 29. Two more days and its the end of a tumultous time period in the history of my working life. Consider this-

We lost as many as 25% of our department 'old timers' due to the 1Q 2009 recession. This alone resulted in roughly 1500 years of experience!

Imagine the wealth of wisdom that can be mined! Sadly there is no technology in the world today that can concisely summary, put into context or even make sense of all those years of experience.

If there is just a way for us to 'download' all those informations? Then we would not be condemned to repeat the mistakes made by our forefathers because we have learned from history.

Hmm, possible business idea? Takers anyone?