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We’ve got few weeks of celebrations, Passover, Easter, Buddha’s birthday… A Baha’i‘ friend was fasting a couple of weeks ago and … Spring is coming in the Northern Hemisphere and rain is coming to Western Australia – which makes many native plants bloom.
The good news is that we’ve got some rain in Perth, Japan is sorting its problems, and warm weather has started to arrive in the US, Canada and northern Europe. Knowing about Spring makes Winter more bearable. In the Middle East things are getting better, or rather, we are getting used to those things. Egypt is struggling because of the drastic drop in tourism – I was there weeks before the uprising and the situation was already hard, the economy keeps shrinking as tourists have vanished.
The better news is that we are more comfortable with less, and hopefully Americans got a reality check and are back on track. Not that they are winning the race, but they are training! And everybody knows that training beats complaining. Start up rates are high and there are so many people relentlessly working to get back on track it is inspiring.
And the best news is that one of my papers got accepted at the Triple Helix Conference in Stanford so I’ll be there in July, presenting. The Triple Helix approach considers that Universities should engage with the private sector and use public sector’s support to create research that is useful not only to the consumers but to the economy. The topic is full of controversies, and I’ll cover more on that in the few weeks.
For now, one of the most critical lessons I’ve learned moving from academia to a corporation to a startup to an investor and back to academia is this: Brainers DON’T add value to the economy. It is not what you think, it is not what you discovered, it is what you DO with it.
We need more jobs, we need more companies, we need more wealth… and in the basis of all of this, it is the parallel evolution that helps YOU, an individual, create value for OTHERS, like customers, suppliers, community, employee and shareholders so WE can all benefit.
Let’s rejoice about what is going well, and then, let’s reflect upon what we need to do to take this rejoice into prosperity for our communities.
You think about it, we’re here to help.
