Good morning from YVR where I begin the last week of travel before the Christmas Break. Leadership Notes will return from alisdairsmith.com in the New Year. A short note this week, to wish you all a wonderful and festive holiday season, and a new year filled with warmth and peace, inside and out. This year feels like I’ve been talking about the future, a lot. And I hope I have. We are in the midst of a great turning. According to the Economist, about 2.8 billion people have smart phones. By year end 2016, that number will be 4.5 billion. Given that the first iPhone came out in June of 2007, we are in the midst of a dramatic change, in both positive and shadow ways. What will your job look like? What will your team look like by the end of 2015? 2016? But perhaps the more important question for us all as leaders is, who will I be at the end of 2015? I want to thank my amazing colleagues at CUSource and Credit Union Central of Canada, who were the very first to receive Leadership Notes, and who encouraged me to keep it up. I look forward to our new working relationship. And to each of you for your continued engagement with Leadership Notes, the emails I receive, the questions and comments that spark more dialogue and your kind remarks when we meet in person are received with great gratitude. Thank you. We’ll start the conversation again in the January 5, 2015 edition of Leadership Notes. Until then, have courage, hold on to what is good, return no one evil for evil, support the weak, and honour life.