Honest brokers.

Men like Carroll, who had served in the Royal Air Force, often found their way to Antarctica because they’d grown up reading about Robert Scott’s journey to the South Pole in the early 1900s and they viewed Antarctic service as a gateway to adventure. Jim Fellows, who worked at bases in the 1950s, said he applied for the job to escape a routine 9-to-5 life.

Avlon explained why no one’s ever done a book about “Lincoln the Peacemaker” before. “There’s a pretty good reason,” said Avlon, he said, “which is that he’s assassinated five days after Appomattox, after Lee surrenders to Grant. But, as I show, he was developing a very consistent guide to how you win a peace after winning a war. You can’t simply pound your opponents into submission, you can’t salt the fields. You’ve gotta find a way to live together again, to work together again, to reason together again. … “So everyone’s got a role to play,” he continued. “Citizens, in terms of what we consume. Journalists, in terms of confronting it. And businesses specifically — your leadership and your credibility come from being willing to tell the truth and smack down disinformation. To not contribute to distortions of the truth simply because it’s advantageous in the short run. Being an honest broker is what’s gonna get you further in the long run.”

According to Russell, transformation is not about doing the same thing in a different environment; it’s about doing it differently. Getting it right is a leadership job.

Jasen Eige never could have guessed a casino project would bring him home to Bristol after a successful stint in Richmond. Will Payne – managing partner of Coalfield Strategies – has several economic development projects designed to both attract and retain young talent to the region…“We need new moderate income housing,” Payne said. “The lack of housing stock is simply holding the region back from realizing its full potential.” While the casino has the ability to bring in new people from outside our region, Eige believes it also has the ability to help us retain our best and brightest.

The core value is in cultivating the opportunity to work and in rejoicing in the work that we do. Under the franchise of employment, within a clear business purpose, we open the gate to  personal prosperity and collective stability, to individual wealth and community strength. To advance employment, our taxpayer investment in economic growth programs must be focused  upon the joy of a work ethic, teaching people how to work, and welcoming companies that  provide work as they plant in our communities.