Change Is Inevitable! Recognize and Embrace It!

-Stay ahead in today's new information age!

By Bill Woodall
Founder/CEO, AIREO.com

Our society in America is changing in many ways that affect us, and those who recognize and embrace these changes will be far ahead of those who are slow to change. America is quickly changing from an industrial society to an information society. This new information age is now an economic reality. Innovations in communications and computer technology have and will continue to accelerate the pace of change by collapsing the information float (the amount of time it takes for information to travel). A good example of this change is the time differential between email and mail sent through the Postal Service.

In an industrial society, the strategic resource is capital. In our new society the strategic resource is information. With information as the strategic resource, access to the economic system is much easier for everyone. We are also moving from a national economy to a world economy. The economic growth of industrial nations is slowing down, and many are changing into information societies. Many third world countries are becoming the new industrial societies. We are also turning from an institutional help to a self-help society. In the past, the medical establishment, the government, the corporation, and the school system were all buffers against life’s hard realities. Nowadays people are relying on self-help as seen in the movements to not smoke, to get into shape, and to eat healthier foods.

America is also changing from a Representative Democracy to a Participatory Democracy due to the information age. People whose lives are affected by a decision now demand to be part of the decision process. Our representative system was created over 200 years ago when direct citizen participation was simply not feasible. With the communication revolution, we now get information as fast or faster than our representatives. Therefore, we now want our representatives to check back with us on issues that affect us.

Our society is also changing from hierarchies to Networking. The failure of hierarchies to solve societies problems forced people to talk to one another, and that was the beginning of networking. As the “baby boomers” grew up, they started getting together in networks for causes such as the anti-war movement and the women’s movement. Networks offer what hierarchies could never deliver, the horizontal link. In the structure of a network each individual is at its center, and members treat one another as peers. In a network, information itself is the great equalizer. Because the “baby boomers” were brought up learning to network, they don’t know how to organize in any other way. Hierarchies promote moving up and getting ahead, and they produce stress, tension, and anxiety. Networking empowers the individual, and people in networks tend to nurture one another. In a networking structure, small groups of talented people can govern their own work environment and produce spectacular results. In a network, rewards come from empowering others not by climbing over them.

These changes in our society due to this new information age have caused several changes in the real estate investment industry. The veteran investors have been forced to either rethink their methods or to drop out of the business. The availability of information concerning real estate and the speed at which this information can be gathered by the masses have put the small investor on level footing with the big investors. I hear from many investors in our local market that there are not many properties out there to buy. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, it has become the “quick and the dead” in purchasing with the best deals disappearing quickly. My new Stealth Method of real estate investing takes advantage of these changes due to the information age and, if followed, can insure success in today’s marketplace. The Stealth Method uses networking as well as new methods of quickly gathering information to give its practitioners the competitive edge over others in the field.

The Stealth System of investing allows any investor, regardless of experience, to compete in today’s fast paced market. It is based on setting up the investor’s network so that the investor can find as well as evaluate a property in record time, just like the pros. The missing ingredient in most investor training has been training so that the student can recognize a deal. If you don’t know how to evaluate, how do you know when and if you find a deal. Using the Stealth System, an investor can slide into the marketplace and immediately start his investing business without appearing to be a babbling rookie. The system teaches that time is of the essence and teaches investors to use the latest technology to gain information as well as leads.