In a recent interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, Howard Schulz, CEO of the powerful Starbucks Corporation, shocked many in the business world when he stated,  “I don’t believe you can build a sustainable enterprise with a singular goal just on profit.  It is a shallow goal.  I don’t think you can endure.”  

Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Pat Hairston really loves animals, especially her Airdale Terrier, Delta Mae.  She also wanted to get involved as a volunteer in her local area.  While at an azalea festival, Pat discovered Carolina Canines for Service (CCES), and realized it was the connection she had been looking for.   She began volunteering in the office, and after watching a team training session and seeing a person with limited mobility get matched with a service dog, she was hooked.

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

Many of us read the novel “The Secret Garden” when we were children.  We were captivated by the idea of restoring a small garden plot overrun with weeds to a place of beauty---a place where friendship and healing bloomed alongside the flowers.

Kindergarten teacher Marisa Martinez  had finally reached her breaking point.  The California economy was on the brink of collapse and new cuts to the regional school system were deeper than ever before, so she did something unusual.

LTT visits Magnolia Bistro in Burlington, VT to see how Vermont's first "certified green" restaurant is making it work. Co-owners July Sanders and Shannon Reilly talk about how they blend business interests with those of their community. Continue Reading