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Resolution for the New Year
By Mark Williams
ACTE President
It's customary to begin the new year with at least one resolution. Most
people plan to lose weight, give up smoking or improve themselves in some
way. Quite frankly, I find this rather limiting. Not just these suggestions,
but the entire concept of a resolution. The very word "resolution"
conjures
up some fragile glass-like promise, poised for breaking. Rather than
beginning the year with "a" resolution, I think we're better off
beginning it
with resolution -- the state of being resolute.
I am personally resolved to learn all I can about the crucial issues (airport
security, airline bankruptcy, global economics and the trickle-down effect
outside pressures directly and indirectly exert on my company). I am resolved
to find out what I can do about them. And I'm resolved to pursue those ends
in the act of fulfilling my responsibilities as an executive of my company
and of this association.
I'm also resolved not to take the first working solution. But to take what
works with the understanding that a better, more comprehensive approach to a
problem needs to be developed as the problem continues to evolve. And we will
have our challenges. The airlines are finally faced with the prospects of
rebuilding both cost and pricing structures. The government is reinventing
national security with terrorism as the major threat. And the role of the
travel manager is changing into a far more complicated position.
ACTE has a major role to play in each of these scenarios. I am resolute
that this association will continue as a catalyst for rationalization,
recovery and a return to global prosperity. Resolutions tend to be made of
glass. The sense of resolution we need to feel for the next year has to be
made of leather -- like our initiatives -- so it can be kicked around (if
need be) before we run with it.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Williams
ACTE President
Association of Corporate Travel Executive
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