What's new?

"Hi, what's new?" was a familiar greeting back in my growing up years in Maine. It was an easy way to start a conversation. There was almost always, something new for the other to recount. "Nothin'" was the other choice. What if our students were to be mainly predisposed to saying that nothing is new for them? Isn't it much more energizing for us at teachers to work with learners for whom there is always news? My take on this is that business as a domain and management as a process and practice is always about what's new, or is going to be new. What do you think?