Be Smart: Embrace Change

The retail industry is undergoing dramatic change. This is a lesson for you and I:

1. You are not static, you were not born into a static world, you have no right to live in a perpetually unchanging existence. Why would you want to, anyway? In business and technology, embrace change. Don’t rage against it.

2. Position yourself in such a way that you benefit from the change you see and the change you expect. This needs to be a very conscious state of mind. The notion that you can ‘get a job’ and then ‘work hard’ and deserve to be employed at the same place for as long as you want is an unreasonable expectation-it’s “I deserve” instead of “I serve” way of thinking.

3.  When you encounter obstacles, challenges or treatment you think is ‘unfair’, resist the temptation towards victim-thinking, and instead accept the reality and look for the opportunity created by that challenge.