Frankly speaking, we always face the crisis in path of our live. We are living from one crisis to other ones, from upper level crisis to more lower level, from bigger one to smaller ones, or vice versa. Thus, what matters actually is not the crisis inherently, rather significantly the character(s) embedded, namely "uncertainty"..

Uncertainty is the most important challenge we have faced, are challenging and will face. Our previous generations have faced the uncertainties, we are experiencing also, and our future generations as well. So, if the problem of all generations is likely the same, then why interpretations is different, specific, and context-based?

It is about the "innovation" what make the interpretations differ! Innovation-based thinking always face the crisis with enthusiasm. They are looking for the differences, with uncertainties. They are creating the "niches". But why? Isn't that a measurements that need different effort from the "routines", breaking the old-rules, forgetting what we have learned, and sometimes de-learning what we have already committed together? Yes, of course! And that is the significant differentiation, between innovation-based thinking and not.



Of course, "routines", the existing rule of the game makes us secure-feeling. In the short and medium run, yes! But, when talking about the long run, either in business, politics, social, etc., then we are talking about "approximation", about the "grey" area. Do the old generations always need horse for their transportation purposes? Do our offices need only type-writer? What will happen when the Bill Gates' idea of personal computer become the "rule of the game"? The only explanation to describe this is "innovation"!

It is, therefore, a paradox, that we are facing always "uncertainties" in one side, but in other side we are experiencing with the progress of our system of thinking, our civilization. How could we explain this paradox? Trying to explain this is a matter of knowing and understanding the results of the innovative thoughts that "approach" the uncertainties successfully. As Joseph Alois Schumpeter explains, innovation creates and improves the existing developments, "creative destruction", that mostly comes from the so-called "entrepreneur" who has "wild spirit". They approach the uncertainties with innovative-thoughts successfully.

Riad
Makassar, 19.01.2009