Let's put on a show

This morning the board directors met, Upper Calder Valley Renaissance Company, gathered at a table, in Hebble End Works. It was, though I say it myself, a fine meeting, not a meeting of minds but rather a creative… argument! Stormy at times, noisy most of the time, creative all of the time, great. Why is that we always expect a good meeting to be a peaceful one, sometimes and in the case of the board this is so, strong minds, strong opinions, strong meetings, give strong decisions. What made it good was the common commitment to make it good, and a common commitment to do something, to make our valley better. It had that atmosphere of those sixties teen films where someone says “Let’s put on a show” and in minutes they were on the West End stage.
I guess that is the essence of the entrepreneur or rather this could be the entrepreneurial community where anything could happen and if it doesn’t there will be something new to try tomorrow.
Spent a very happy evening with another friend engaged in renaissance but this time in the painstaking business of corporate planning. This was long term solid stuff the opposite of our stormy morning meeting, but the only real way to get a big corporate plan off the ground.
I wonder what would happen if we got the sparky stuff of this morning to partner with the solid corporate stuff my friend is involved with? Now that would be an interesting meeting to watch... or perhaps a good, creative, fight!