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As kids growing up in the 50s and 60s, music was a big part of our lives: I got a guitar for my 12^th birthday and have been playing ever since. Playing in bands paid for college and added a whole different dimension to my education: it added inspiration to the world of formal book-learning and taught me the wonder of creating new music while playing music in bands. Later in life, those same skills served me and my colleagues well when opening hotels. There, the drive to find better processes was discovered while working with legacy practices and philosophies: we knew that just because something had always been done a certain way was no excuse to keep doing it, especially if better methods could be discovered. In the mid 80s we had few computers and, as we learned more about what they could do, we began to discover ways to use them to re-invent what we’d always done. And as they say, the rest is history. But time never stands still, and today people are still finding inspiration with what others had created: whether working on-site or from home, people continue to find newer and better and more exciting innovations. Use your time wisely when working – whether in coffee shops or on shop floors; keep your mind open to being inspired by the things you see and do.  The wonders of tomorrow are found in the things we’re doing today.

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869 – 1954): French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship