Business Blog: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King died.

He wasn’t a perfect man. By the end of his life, the weight of leadership bore heavily upon him. Throughout many years before his murder, he had lived as a target of hate.

But he changed the world.

Most of us will never have a hundredth of the notoreity or the influence of MLK. We’ll go through our daily routines, we’ll mind our own business, and we’ll try to stay more or less happy as we go along. But sometimes, we’ll catch a glimmer of what we might be, what we might do — if only we were bold enough.

Whether you do it by big or small means, I exhort you: change the world. Find out what you’re capable of, whether it’s in business (in which case you’ll likely make a fortune) or in the rest of life (in which case you’ll certainly leave a lasting impression).

How are you going to change the world? How is your organization going to change the world?

Start today.

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(Photo from this amazing set at TIME.)