We can create the life we want by developing a personal plan based on our true passion and purpose in life, writes Academy Member James A. Cusumano, Ph.D. in the fifth article in his new series in Leaders Magazine (formerly Prague Leaders). Based on his experience as an entrepreneur and the founder of several successful businesses, he explains the process of creating such a plan.
Jim writes that when your core values “align with your true sense of purpose in life—that fundamental internal core essence that differentiates you from others—intense passion is generated and you are able to pursue your life dream and experience a great level of continuous happiness and fulfillment.” ...more...
Leaders Magazine previously published Jim’s 10-part series on energy and climate change. Jim is one of the co-authors of the Academy's 2007 book, Freedom from Mideast Oil.
Jim was a member of the “Visionary Panel” at the European Banking & Financial Forum 2009, a meeting of the CEOs of all the major European banks and attended by about 300 people. The other four panelists were Christine Lagarde, France’s Minister of Finance; Anatoly Aksakov, President of Regional Banks in Russia; Grigori Marchenko, Governor of the National Bank of Kazakhstan; and Tomas Zima, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague.
For a good debunking of the myth that nuclear power is safe and clean, read “Nuke accident would dwarf oil spill,” a Huffington Post commentary by two experts in public health. They describe the cancer clusters, particularly among children, in communities near nuclear power plants, a problem that the World Business Academy’s publications have also described.
Truthout.org has published the Academy's latest article, "The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse than the BP Oil Disaster," by Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco and Academy Vice President Madeleine Austin.
Truthout.org and the World Business Academy have launched a partnership to bring their readers more cutting edge stories. Rinaldo is a member of Truthout's Advisory Board.
Truthout is keeping independent journalism alive through its edgy daily newsletter, which broadens and diversifies the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on undercovered issues and unconventional thinking.
Truthout has published the following Academy articles that you won't want to miss:
"Nuclear 'Spin-Co,'" by Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco and Academy Vice President Madeleine Austin.
"The President's Leadership Challenge: A Call for Bold Action," by Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco;
"'Spellcasters': The Hunt for the 'Buy-Button' in Your Brain," by Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin, with a link to the neuromarketing video created by Academy Board Member Tim O'Connor;
"Bringing the World Out of Denial: The Power of Passion, The Fallacy of Fear," by James A. Cusumano, about why we are doing so little to address critical global issues;
"Copenhagen: A Bigger Opportunity Than Climate Change," by Rinaldo Brutoco, about the need for a new global Marshall Plan which will raise the living standards of rich and poor nations alike; and
"The True Story about ‘Climate Cover-Up,’" Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco's and Vice President Madeleine Austin's review of James Hoggan’s new book about climate change deniers.
All Academy articles can be found on its special page at Truthout.
Watch “Redefining Success,” a video created by Academy Fellow Hazel Henderson’s company, Ethical Markets, the financial lifestyles program that reports on how people, NGOs, businesses, and even countries are redefining success in the global marketplace.
Every week the program brings stories about "how individuals and institutions from all over the world are transforming lives, changing business, and the way we measure wealth and profits while being socially accountable.”
“Redefining Success” features interviews with global change agents who are leading the charge to get countries to adopt new scorecards for measuring progress, no longer measuring it solely in terms of money and Gross National Product (GDP).