Thought 11MAR2008

I'LL DO IT MYSELF
What do you do if you've invested sixteen years of your life with a company and your ideas for change are disregarded? Ask Liz Claiborne. Claiborne was a clothing designer with the Jonathan Logan Company. She believed their limited variety of patterns and sizes were insufficient to meet the changing needs of their market. Efforts to convince management that body types and style preferences warranted innovation in design fell on deaf ears.

Undiscouraged, Claiborne became a vehicle for stylish and affordable women's apparel by starting her own company. Her versatile designs appealed to the growing number of women in the workforce and to store buyers. Liz Claiborne, Inc. experienced enviable growth throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, ultimately attaining the number-one position in the woman's fashion industry.

Proactive change agents act upon the convictions of their beliefs regardless of the resistance presented by outside forces.
Extracted from 'Speaker's Sourcebook II', Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Italian Proverb