Trend Setters
Just finished "Success Built to Last" and "The Leader of the Future 2". Still caught up in this...
"From the time I got home from WSC until I left for NYC, I’ve been reading, reading more than I ever have before. I’ve found that only after graduating comes all the time to read what you actually want. J The reading has really run the gamut: from conservative author Dinesh D’Souza to Barack Obama, from the Tipping Point to The End of Poverty, from BusinessWeek to Business 2.0. Truth is that within everything I read, what stood out most were the trends and trend setters that touch our lives in more ways than we can imagine.
From Dwayne Wade and the evolution of sports marketing, to Jeffrey Sachs and the fight to end extreme poverty, to leading edge companies like PyroGenesis making profitable business out of “green” technology, to Barack Obama inspiring millions behind his vision for America – whether we’re aware or not, the world is full of trend setters.
I couldn’t refrain from thinking about AIESEC through all of this. I began to wonder what kind of trends had been set in the past, of who had come into the organization, done something unbelievable, and inspired AIESECers all over the nation. I wondered if I had been in the company of those people – of the people that got us here. I wondered if my AIESEC generation would be a trend setter. I wondered what trend setters had attended SSC 2006, WSC 2007, or an orientation in the last few weeks. Finally, I wonder what trends AIESEC US will see in 2007, and who will set those.
What do you want AIESEC in the future to remember you for? To remember us for? As mid-February rolls around, the national conference high has past, and school takes its toll, I challenge this organization to see just what we’re made of – just to see what trends we can unleash."
"From the time I got home from WSC until I left for NYC, I’ve been reading, reading more than I ever have before. I’ve found that only after graduating comes all the time to read what you actually want. J The reading has really run the gamut: from conservative author Dinesh D’Souza to Barack Obama, from the Tipping Point to The End of Poverty, from BusinessWeek to Business 2.0. Truth is that within everything I read, what stood out most were the trends and trend setters that touch our lives in more ways than we can imagine.
From Dwayne Wade and the evolution of sports marketing, to Jeffrey Sachs and the fight to end extreme poverty, to leading edge companies like PyroGenesis making profitable business out of “green” technology, to Barack Obama inspiring millions behind his vision for America – whether we’re aware or not, the world is full of trend setters.
I couldn’t refrain from thinking about AIESEC through all of this. I began to wonder what kind of trends had been set in the past, of who had come into the organization, done something unbelievable, and inspired AIESECers all over the nation. I wondered if I had been in the company of those people – of the people that got us here. I wondered if my AIESEC generation would be a trend setter. I wondered what trend setters had attended SSC 2006, WSC 2007, or an orientation in the last few weeks. Finally, I wonder what trends AIESEC US will see in 2007, and who will set those.
What do you want AIESEC in the future to remember you for? To remember us for? As mid-February rolls around, the national conference high has past, and school takes its toll, I challenge this organization to see just what we’re made of – just to see what trends we can unleash."
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