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#wbf09 Lost your way? Never. You build the track.

And time is now. Or I should say time is always now. We shouldn't wait for turning points or critical crossroads. We just need to learn to be on the alert... Aware and perceptive, open and candid... free from prejudice or judgement... Today at lunch, I came up with another powerful image of people getting ready for a difficult challenge. Alluring as the warm-up lap in a race can be, it has a component that's preset, conveniently "planted" with hazards and chicanes, with warning flags: a neatly and well designed circuit.

When I heard William Ury, Harvard's negotiation expert, explain the rationale of his project The Abraham Path, I realised this "path" idea adds a passionate, sensitive approach to the whole idea of facing your challenges.  The Abraham Path is a route of cultural tourism which follows the footsteps of Abraham / Ibrahim through the Middle East. By retracing this journey, it provides a place of meeting and connection for people of all faiths and cultures, inviting us to remember our common origins, to respect our cultural differences, and to recognize our shared humanity. 

I realised then how enticing it felt... tracing your own track... There is a personal commitment, a future aspiration built in the present, step by step. And the inevitable change we bring, the difference we make with each and every small action... In this time of re-foundation, of re-creation we are living, this emerging journey strategy is much more suitable than a circuit. It's our call ...  we can choose to fix the scars of the last race, ut the same starting lights on once again  and get ready to again leave rubber stuck on the pavement that will need to be removed .... or sink our footsteps on the sand and let them be gently swept by time and stay deeply engrained in our memory and the memory of those who shared the path with us or of those who followed...

#wbf09 Warm-up lap towards World Business Forum —starting today

Interesting image that of racing cars assembling slowly at the starting grid and then lapping in formation with no overtaking...  While going through this unprecedented transition period, caution, preservation, survival mode seem to be the safe options. Let's say, the "instinctive" choice. But as we move forward into the future, a different "fire within" is needed. Whatever you call it —fire, passion, transformational intent— that inherently human push to go beyond safe repetition and create has always been the underlying fuel of HSM World Business Forum. 

As Executive Editor at HSM, I can't be but thrilled by the historical moment of this year's edition. Global leaders are restating challenges, guidelines and policies. In the meantime, change proves that exceptions could not only make the rule but in fact change it ... that resilience goes beyond darwinian adaptability... that words are just as powerful as the earthy acts that support them...  that ideas flourish everywhere as well as their "ideators" and that they are not meant to be the exclusive right of a few but the shared wealth of many (as many as possible) ... Open innovation becomes the key, collaboration, the door... and the world, the landscape... Energy & food, growth & recovery, poverty & development, climate change & greening, wealth distribution & social businesses... Some interesting "pairs" in which "now" means at once and "the future", now... Oh, yes.., What a timely World Business Forum we are having! 

My name is Graciela Gonzalez Biondo. And —to stick to the F1 imagery— though the lights at the starting grid are still fully lit, from now on, we'll be sharing the exciting experience of the World Business Forum... until far past the checkered flag.

Excellent Blog Posting by @Stu On Following the World Business Forum Virtually

The 2009 World Business Forum features an extensive lineup of some of the leading business bloggers in the world who will be blogging live from the event and posting to their Twitter accounts a play by play of the event from a special section at Radio City Music Hall called the "Bloggers Hub"

In the following blog posting by 2009 World Business Forum featured blogger Stuart Miniman, he describes how to best take advantage of the #WB09 Bloggers Hub.

Don't know what #WBF09 or a Hash Tag is? Read the following posting by Stuart and you'll understand how you can track all the action at the 2009 World Business Forum:

http://blogstu.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/wbf-bloggers-lounge/