Mel Brekhus shared his thoughts on what we, as leaders in the cement industry, need to do in order to thrive in these turbulent and tumultuous times in the cement industry:
I – Integrity (relationships you can trust)
M – Mentoring (because in a knowledge-economy, success is determined by the rate you learn)
A – Action (communicate common goals and empower the community)
G – Grow (because the world is getting smaller, information is getting bigger, so life comes at you faster)
I – Inertia (embrace change – even if it is uncomfortable)
N – Nimble (the most agile survive)
E – Enjoy (have fun doing all of the above)
It’s not so hard to IMAGINE A WORLD IN WHICH CEMENT IS THE FUTURE OF BUILDING PRODUCTS
Interesting parallel between what BridgeGap Engineering seems to be advertising on their site and what Mr. Brekhus had to say at the 2009 IEEE conference. Any chance there was some note sharing somewhere before the presentation? It’s a little ironic that both parties are talking about so many of the same things: Trust/Integrity, time and the pace of life, smaller world & the size/value of knowledge, the need to be nimble and the need for responsiveness…