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As I am getting ready for San Diego, with my first learning lab presentation, a council meeting, and the numerous general schedule choices, I noticed that I missed signing up for the thought leader sessions. That’s likely because I was working from the preliminary program and just read the final program, which has a real nice framed banner at the top of the page, stating “New this year! … ” Well, shame on me, so I’ll read closer, and more, next time. I’m probably the only one who made this mistake.

This leads to the perpetual “rate of change” conundrum. How do we know what is new – not just at the annual meeting, but with all our electronic and paper interactions? Sure, we rely on the distributor to tell us about the latest improvement on a website or a special situation at a conference. But how do we really adjust? How do we keep up with our “old” things, while adding the improvements? So if there is one new thing added, that’s OK? But if there are 2 things added – or “double the rate of change” – is that too much?

This morning I provided – yet again – a document to a member, who is notorious for losing things. Not that I mind a bit, of course. In this case, I suspect that I’m not the only person who has such requests. Well maybe this person keeps up with the change rate better than saving old documents. Somehow I don’t think so.

But then again, I missed the “new this year” statement.