Colorado Leaders Create Collaborative Dialogue with Mexico

Today, Gayle Dendinger, CEO of ICOSA Media will join Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and seventy other various leaders from Colorado businesses on the Biennial of the Americas trade mission to Mexico City. This four day trade mission is sponsored by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and is meant to build ideas, connections and a collaborative dialogue for the upcoming Biennial of the Americas to be held in Colorado in 2015. Participants include Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gill Foundation, Urban Market Partners, Colorado State University, CH2M Hill, Bravo! Vail, Vail Resorts Inc., Denver Museum of Nature and Science, CIMCO Private Wealth, Colorado School of Mines, Unreasonable Institute, ICOSA Media, Denver Hispanic Chamber, Project C.U.R.E., Chamber of the Americas, Lockheed Martin, Colorado College, Denver International Airport, Smithsonian, Suncor, Colorado State University…just to name a few.

“The Biennial of the Americas provides an international platform for leaders in business, government, civil society, and the arts to examine the significant issues impacting life in the Americas.” For more information on the Biennial please visit, www.biennialoftheamericas.org.

To view coverage of the 2014 Biennial of the Americas please visit, http://bit.ly/B_A Participants will arrive this afternoon into Mexico City and will start the evening with a welcome reception hosted by Vail Resorts that will include leaders from Colorado and Mexico City.

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Brazil's Painted Streets

As the world cup begins, Google Street View is an immersive way to vicariously enjoy the art and atmosphere. Click the image below to check out Brazil's painted streets:

Cathey McClain Finlon’s Career Lessons

 

Determine if a company’s mission matches your vision and values.  Early in her career Cathey McClain Finlon did just that.

Finlon’s expertise in matching vision and values is found in reviewing the following:

1. “For things to change, I have to change.” In growing the McClain Finlon advertising agency to Ad Age Top 100 U.S. agencies responsibilities were given to those who were trained.  It is a challenge to give up things to other people as a company grows.
2. Spend time working with industry and community boards to build skills and let those skills flow into the company, (Finlon spent 30 percent of her time on boards).
3. Mentors pick you, and you earn their mentorship.  People who identify themselves as serious doers are chosen to be mentored.  “Show me your friends and I will show you, you,” Finlon.
4.  Unbalanced work and home make life rich and full.  Unbalance is fun and intense which can allow you to achieve more.
5. Work harder than the next person, leave no rock unturned.
6. Check fear at the gate; don’t let it run your business.
7. Run, don’t walk from bad work situations.
8. Be optimistic.