Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

The New Year 2012

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

  “Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look on the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory. Let us cultivate sunniness, resist sourness. We can better wrestle with difficulties, obstacles, problems, in a spirit of [...]

Louisville – A Great City Inspired from Within

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Joe Reagan is the President and CEO of  Greater Louisville Inc. (Louisville’s Metro Chamber of Commerce) the Southern Indiana and Greater Louisville region’s  leading business organization. GLI leads business, community and economic development in Greater Louisville working to increase human capital, drive job creation and entrepreneurship, maximize global opportunities and strengthen the business leadership of [...]

Steve Jobs: In the Words of His Sister Mona Simpson

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

If you haven’t yet read the eulogy for Steve Jobs delivered by his sister, Mona Simpson, take a moment to do so – and be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy.  This is a remarkable piece of writing about a remarkable man. Seldom is one so privileged to peek through this most intimate and [...]

What the World Needs Now

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Don Tapscot, in his recent Huffingtpon Post article reports on the priorities of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils. He notes that they are: Growth and Employment Models The policy prescriptions, industry models and performance incentives that emerged from an era of consumption and debt-driven growth must be transformed to deliver quality growth. Growth [...]

On Being Inspired in a Team

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

In Keith Richards recent autobiography entitled, “Life“, he writes about what it feels like to be inspired as part of a team that is one of the greatest in history – The Rolling Stones. He writes, “There’s a certain moment when you realize that you’ve actually just left the planet for a bit and that [...]