People will matter most in this fight -- we need entrepreneurial spirit and energy to come together with a whole new way of working in the world.
For many years my colleagues and I have seen business and non-profit leaders intentionally capture the spirit and energy of a short-term crisis and use it not only to achieve the immediate goal, but also to build more effective ways of working over time.
And so the spirit of a professional sporting event or even a college event that you usually get - partisans going crazy and the energy and the spirit of having fans who love the teams - that's all watered down by the fact that the Super Bowl is something that transcends sports and really is a giant corporate event.
It is terribly difficult to breed a can-do spirit, but the raw energy that fuels it can be harnessed and channeled appropriately.
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Over in Gusev Crater, Spirit had been running low on energy as the martian dust began to cover the rover's solar panels.
We believe that Americans can do anything and if we unleash the innovative spirit of our citizens, we can achieve energy independence.
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As we wrote in the Forbes 400 issue, Seagrams spirit heir Charles Bronfman and 5-hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava talked with us about their decisions to join.
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These days she exudes a high energy, determination and a lightness of spirit.
They must approach every e-mail, phone call and interview with energy, enthusiasm and a can-do spirit.
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More than a mere matter of building roads and bridges and increasing access to cheap energy, the WPA was about restoring a collective spirit, a shared stake, in constructing the sinews of a more competitive, prosperous country.
Who could ignore that beautiful energy, the sparkle in his eye, or that spirit that clearly said, "I am here and I am something special"?
What this is all suggests is that the human spirit in its most daring moments has actually manifested physical attenuations of energy expenditure, reducing the tally of total energy consumption by exponential multiples undreamed of a few generations ago.
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His aim is to show that he is the one who can make the slogan "we're all in it together" meaningful by pledging to use the power of government to stand up to vested interests - banks, energy, pension and rail companies - as well as harnessing the Olympic spirit of working together to repair Britain.
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