This Week at Local Wisdom, Week 37
Well last week was my first full week back from paternity leave. My wife gave birth to our first daughter, Elena Aminah Larane. She continues to melt our hearts each day. But I am now back and reinvigorated to continue to spread the Local Wisdom, We love making websites, gospel to the masses.
This past week was awesome! Some of the highlights included attending two great networking events, and hosting another in our new office. Midweek myself, Tracy, David, and Tim went to the Princeton Chamber of Commerce Business Before Business Breakfast. We met and spoke with fellow members of the Princeton business community. We also sat through a fantastic presentation by Professor Graham Jones, Co-Founder and Director of a company named Lane4. The presentation centered around the role of leaders in creating conditions where their employee can thrive. I thought it was a great presentation that spoke to the current state of our economy and the pressures we as managers, place on our employees to be successful. To get the best of out your employees, Graham stated you must balance these pressures by acknowledging and rewarding the small wins and milestones along the way. Keeping your employees motivated and self assured that there managers value their effort goes a long way.
Later in the week, I attended a networking event sponsored by the African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ. This event was held at Deltas Restaurant in New Brunswick. I met with fellow African American business owners and executives representing both New Jersey and Philadelphia. Stephen A. Smith formerly of ESPN and now FOX News Network gave an inspiring talk about empowering the African American Business Community through networking and forging business relationships. Afterwards, I was able to speak to Stephen A. for a bit. On a side note I did not realize how tall he actually was.
On Thursday evening, Local Wisdom hosted a NJ Mobile Meetup meeting at our freshly moved into Princeton Junction office. Special thanks to Stephen Itak of Victory Selections for sponsoring with delicious wine, and the crew at Sun Bank for providing the pizza. The event went very well. David Spira and the Local Wisdom team would like to thank the guest speaker, Ken Kay (Angel Investor) and everyone else who came to the event.
Otherwise we continue on a track of busyness with curations and project with ELS, Perdue Pharma, and the Global Marketing Group of Johnson & Johnson. Till next week!!!