In Thomas Friedman’s new book The World is Flat he talks about how to survive the coming flat world. One of those ways that we can all learn from is being highly adaptable.

Although I wanted to do heavy networking, I’m not sure that is going to become a reality. So, I decided after spending all day in bed with the flu that I had to make sure that we prepared for the Mono session and the Open Source Java BOF Session. I know that this isn’t exactly what Thomas referred to, but it is a small example. It is merely a simple example of being open to new information and responding to new information to set new objectives.