It has been a rather interesting week in #Outsiders as the transition to the new platform is being finalized. This is as we have been witness to the continued exciting scenes on the US Political Scene. As part of the plan for the quarter, our team has made a decision not to release any notation on the US Political Scene until after the two major parties nominate the candidates. The estimates on the delegate counts are preliminary and subject to further discussions. Although polls are being done almost daily, the indications are not sufficient enough to assess status. Talks of Supreme Court nominees and other matters the team reviewed this morning are also headline grabbers for sure. Promises of good paying jobs, destroying the Government and unleashing creativity is fabulous. Repealing Obamacare is headline-grabbing. Deporting 11 Million Illegals and forcing Mexico to pay for a wall by policing remittances is also attention grabbing. But the reality is different. The team will do an assessment of both candidates once the dust settles. Our first notation for #Outsider 2.x published by tomorrow will reflect further thoughts on where things are now and a window into the road ahead on the eve of the conventions. The team decided to leave the "daily punditry" to the likes of the Washington Post (with the Daily 202 & the Fix), Fox News, Real Clear Politics, Huffington Post & MSNBC
Beyond the US political scene, there is the World. Our team has had a particular focus on the Middle East and we will be assessing this on an on-going basis. The team will also be continuing its' focus to build upon the daily "watch" on Twitter on China and India to assess realities out there and to assess the future. We will also be keen to assess the latest out of the leading countries in the Muslim World. Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia will be of special focus to us. These five countries--along with the Middle East--constitute almost 50% of the World Today. As such, CIPIM is hereby born!!! In our view, what happens in these countries matters. Our team was "kind of right" when it noted almost a year ago that the old "BRICS" was dead as new scholarship has been published to underscore this as epitomized by the turmoil in Brazil, Russia and South Africa. We will be assessing the World though with our Regional Focus weekly--and yes, the features we have had will also be part and parcel of it all: The Musical Interlude and Thought(s) for the Week because ultimately #outsiders is about a sense of optimism and working to transform the conversation about our World. The challenges around the World are profound--the most crucial one of all being faced with an economic slowdown. The IMF has been warning about it for over a year now.
As progress continues, I could not help but again be inspired by these I ran across I wanted to pass on that +Jonathan Huie & his team compiled
As the team has struggled with the transformation we've been working on (and the plan is to be simple and continually focused), this from the Champ himself was worth noting as we look forward to serve:
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
- Rose Kennedy
The most glorious moments in your life
are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days when out of dejection and despair
you feel rise in you a challenge to life,
and the promise of future accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
- Andy Rooney
As the team has struggled with the transformation we've been working on (and the plan is to be simple and continually focused), this from the Champ himself was worth noting as we look forward to serve:
“I hated every minute of training,
but I said, ‘Don’t quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life
as a champion’.”
~ Muhammad Ali
but I said, ‘Don’t quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life
as a champion’.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Onward!!!
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