You Can Go Home Again
I’m exciting to be helping out on the Annual Meeting blog again. Blogging at the event is a blast, but I promise to try to stimulate some thinking ahead of time as well. There are so many big name keynote and thought leaders (many with good books). I want to try to do some of the reading and push the conversation even before we get there. I am particularly interested in Claire Raines (Mickie already posted about her) and her presentation on Generations. More on that later.
My first point, however, is a bit more nostalgic. I grew up in Boston! I was born there and lived in the North End (the Italian section) until I was five, and then we moved out to the suburbs (Newton, to be exact. And yes, Fig Newtons are named after that town). I’m looking forward to being back, although a lot has changed since the “old days.” But it’s a great area. I know the meeting will be busy, but try to get out and about. See Harvard Square. Get down to the Charles River and just stroll. Ride the swan boat at the public gardens. Do some power shopping on Newbury Street. If, by the time you leave the Annual Meeting, all you know about Boston is where to locate the rest rooms in the convention center, then you’ve missed out!