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.  

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

Did you ever stand on the edge of a high cliff or a very tall building and get a touch of vertigo?  For most of us that uneasy feeling probably went away as soon as we pulled back and recognized we were once again on firm ground.

Think the explosive new wellbeing movement can’t heat up any more? Think again.  Two very important leaders have jumped on board and their actions are sending ripples across nations.

MANISHA THAKOR MBA, is the Author of On Her Own Two Feet a modern girls guide to personal finance to save and invest wisely, achieve financial security and own your finances and your life. She has extensive experience in the financial services industry. She holds her MBA from Harvard Business School and is a CPA. On Living Smart she discusses how to live well today with the need to save and invest for tomorrow. Continue Reading