Chamber Executive Ongoing Education Weekly New Idea: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply a more
selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of
less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to
spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the
implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more
thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less,
but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.
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The 9.6-mile Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit system kicked off with free rides to attract commuters.
"This is important today for symbolic reasons," Mayor George Heartwell told WZZM-TV at a ceremony marking the service's start. "We're the first in the state of Michigan to have bus rapid transit. We are looking toward the future. We're not stuck in the past, we're not even stuck in the present." Read more: Crains Detroit Business
Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotation: (Leadership) "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
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Chamber good news: Grand Rapids launches $40M rapid bus system
Grand Rapids on Monday launched a $40 million rapid transit bus system that connects the city center with southern suburbs.The 9.6-mile Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit system kicked off with free rides to attract commuters.
"This is important today for symbolic reasons," Mayor George Heartwell told WZZM-TV at a ceremony marking the service's start. "We're the first in the state of Michigan to have bus rapid transit. We are looking toward the future. We're not stuck in the past, we're not even stuck in the present." Read more: Crains Detroit Business
Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotation: (Leadership) "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
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Any column ideas for St. Peter Minnesota Chamber?
The
St. Peter Area Chamber of Commerce is given the opportunity to write
columns for a couple of publications each month. That’s awesome, because
there is so much about which to write. We could write a column
headlined, “What’s up with the Pearly Gates?” That’s a question we get
almost daily from visitors, along with queries like, “Why aren’t the
Pearly Gates open?” Read more: St. Peter Herald
Chamber Education: SBA Illinois District Office International Trade Webinars
SBA is committed to helping small business understand the
possibilities of growing revenues and jobs through increased international
trade.
During the months of August and September SBA's Illinois District
Office will offer four 45-60 minute webinars on the topics below. Each webinar
will conclude with a question/answer period during which participants can ask
questions of the presenter.
August 27 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Elements
of Direct and Indirect Exporting
September 10 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm International
Trade Counseling Research and Training Resources
September 17 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm Export
Pricing, Tax and Accounting Options
Visit the links above to register for one or more of the
webinars.
Chamber Event: Oklahoma needs women in leadership
Past and present
elected officials set partisan politics aside and talked about the
importance of women in leadership at the Norman Chamber of Commerce
luncheon on Friday.
Former
Lt. Governor Jari Askins, state representatives Lee Denney and Leslie
Osborn, and Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal comprised a panel that
responded to topics ranging from how they got involved in politics and
public service, to the major issues facing them today. Read more: Norman Transcript
Chamber news: Floyd named ‘Kentucky Work Ready Community in Progress’
Gov. Steve Beshear announced last week that Floyd County has been certified as a Kentucky Work Ready Community in Progress.
The
Kentucky Work Ready Community certification program from the Kentucky
Workforce Investment Board (KWIB) and the Kentucky Education and
Workforce Development Cabinet assures employers that a local workforce
has the talent and skills necessary to staff existing jobs and to master
the innovative technologies new jobs will require. Read more: FloydCountyTimes.com
Chamber Education: Livonia, Michigan Schoolcraft College SBDC Offers Tool Kit Series,
Friday Mornings In September
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Schoolcraft College will be offering a new series of classes in September specifically designed for small business owners. It is called the Small Business Tool Kit Series and will run on Friday mornings from 9 am – noon for the month of September. Each week will feature a different topic and be taught by a subject matter expert: More info: SBA.gov
September 5 - Management (One-Page Strategy)
September 12 - Marketing (Corporate Voice)
September 19 - Legal (Hiring and Firing; Protecting LLC Status)
September 26 - Technology (SEO for the CEO)
Chamber volunteers: MO American Water to fund seven major watershed-improvement projects
On Monday, Aug. 5, Missouri American Water announced that seven local
watershed-related projects will receive funding from the company's
annual Environmental Grant Program.
These grants are part of American Water's national Environmental Grant Program,
which began in 2005. The grants support innovative, community-based
environmental projects that improve, restore and/or protect watersheds and community water supplies through partnerships...
Table Rock Lake Community Service, Inc. will restore native trees
and shrubs destroyed during a highway widening project in Kimberling
City. "Replant Kimberling" will use volunteers from the Table Rock Lake
Chamber of Commerce and Kimberling City Parks and Recreation. Read more: Water World
Chamber history: When Sputnik Crashed in Wisconsin - Half a century later, the town of Manitowoc commemorates its biggest day ever.
It came from outer space…. and crashed down in the middle of a street in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
That surely sounds like the start of a sci-fi movie. But half a century ago, the town was on the receiving end of a 20-pound smoldering hunk of the Soviet Union’s five-ton Sputnik IV satellite.
Media reports from the September 6, 1962 event say there were no eyewitnesses, but “there are hundreds if you ask now,” says J. Gregory Vadney, executive director of the Rahr-West Art Museum, which hosts the festival. Vadney says he heard there were “two police officers on routine patrol when they spotted the piece in the street. They believed it to be a metal ingot from one of the local manufacturing plants, speculated that it fell off a truck, and left it. Following patrol, they returned to the city police station, where they heard that a search had been called for the Sputnik IV spacecraft” and suddenly realized what they’d found. Read more: Air & Space Magazine
That surely sounds like the start of a sci-fi movie. But half a century ago, the town was on the receiving end of a 20-pound smoldering hunk of the Soviet Union’s five-ton Sputnik IV satellite.
Media reports from the September 6, 1962 event say there were no eyewitnesses, but “there are hundreds if you ask now,” says J. Gregory Vadney, executive director of the Rahr-West Art Museum, which hosts the festival. Vadney says he heard there were “two police officers on routine patrol when they spotted the piece in the street. They believed it to be a metal ingot from one of the local manufacturing plants, speculated that it fell off a truck, and left it. Following patrol, they returned to the city police station, where they heard that a search had been called for the Sputnik IV spacecraft” and suddenly realized what they’d found. Read more: Air & Space Magazine
