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Greta Thunberg is 2019’s Person of the Year and That’s Good For Innovation
Find the heroes that inspire your own success
Time Magazine recently made Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist, their 2019 person of the year. I couldn’t be more delighted.
The sixteen-year old Swedish school girl is a huge hero in my eyes. We all need heroes. We need them for our community. We need them for our home. We need them for our neighborhoods. We need them at work.
Wait. What?
New energy is important
New energy and new urgency are necessary for every tiny bit of success. For my success, and for your success, a whole host of little revolutions have to emerge over time. New technology, new opportunity, new political will, and most of all enthusiastic and emergent social pillars for justice, equality, stewardship, and united will have to be erected.
When the time is right, a new hero emerges to ignite possibility. This year, that hero is Greta Thunberg.
Just as most business will fail without a vision that creates the motor to drive motivation, world success does not happen without a similar vision. That is why we need heroes.