Ringing the NASDAQ Bell

Today my co-author for ZENOBIA: THE CURIOUS BOOK OF BUSINESS (an Alice in Wonderlandish tour of corporate America, due out in January) is in New York, ringing the NASDAQ bell, opening a day of what we all hope will be better-than-yesterday trading (much better).

I'm not there, but I can imagine what it looks like: Matt Emmens (who is not just my friend and co-author but the CEO of Shire Pharmaceuticals) and a crowd of Shire-ites—a fist of energy on the trading floor. Dreams fulfilled (the big ones, anyway). Dreams still spinning forward.

Photos of the event here: http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/200711/market_Open_110207.stm