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Authors, sign in!I've said it before. Let me say it again. If I were about 15-20 years younger, I would make a career change. (Is a career what I have?)
I would put together an investment fund group and I would start a new energy company. Our product? Solar panels.
My hiring practices would be a bit unorthodox. Most of my employees, the vast majority of my workforce, would be drawn from the inner city unemployed and underemployed. Many of my team would be ex-incarcerated and looking for a new start and a new life. I think our company could answer that call.
My marketing strategy would include a new wrinkle or two as well. I'd bill our little company something like "Patriot Power."
That would fit well because we would be responding to the nation's need for increased national security, while decreasing the production of greenhouse gases via the use of petroleum products.
In the process, we would help grow the economy and inject new economic power into the inner city.
In short, we would be helping free everyone from the need to import and burn Middle Eastern and other foreign oil while making a positive contribution to improving the environment, stimulating our sagging economy and putting people with real challenges on the right path.
One huge rate-limiter would be the response of the American Congress. Making the shift to a new energy strategy and product will require subsidies and seed funding to build the necessary infrastructure and to train new workers.
Would you invest in my new company?
Published August 19, 2008 by Larry James |
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