Lessons Learned 6 : March 11, 2009 - Look outside our local markets often

My coworker forwarded me a YouTube video the other day, indicating the world in changing much too fast. As seen by over 1,000,000 "youtubers", its scary how fast our world is changing





Last year, my 12 year old brought home this presentation on the demographics of the world. When I first saw this, I thought wow how lucky or privileged we are to live in this world, in beautiful Canada and how many other opportunities are there in developing countries. Being North American centric, I find we often forget about the rest of the world and yet as these videos indicate they will have such a profound effect on the global economy .
Lessons Learned : Although our 401K / RSP look like 201K plans in today’s market we are still very fortunate to live in North America and need to look outside our local market for how our products and services can be of use other areas or in other demographics?