A wise man once said, “There’s no shortage of good ideas. There’s just a shortage of execution.”
The Commonwealth’s Profile edition this year focuses on a number of people in this community who have been able to do both.
Whether they were just born with creative minds, or they developed them out of necessity, it doesn’t much matter. What does matter is they were struck with an idea or saw something they thought might be adaptable here, and they went and did it.
It is this successful entrepreneurial spirit that the Profile edition often tries to spotlight. We gave it even more focus this year by choosing “The Creative Economy” as our cover theme.
We hope as you read it you will be as taken as we are by the number of creative people — in business, in farming, in the hospitality field — that Greenwood and the surrounding area have either fostered or attracted.
They help make this economy tick, and they are an encouragement that no matter the challenges — and they have been pretty stiff for the past decade — this area will successfully pull through it.
It’s that optimism that the Profile edition, now in its 31st year, is all about.
Newspapers and the rest of the media are often blamed with focusing too heavily on the negative. It’s true that conflict and crime — the things that are broken — often get bigger headlines than those things that work well.
Profile is our antidote to that. It’s all about telling, in our largest publication of the year, about the individuals, organizations and attributes that make this community such a unique and wonderful place to be. Most of us already know that this community is special, but it helps to be reminded of it now and then.
That’s our good idea. We hope we’ve executed it well for our readers and our advertisers.
