Inspired by Life! Beginning – or ending – can be exhilarating. And a bit off-putting as well. I say that as someone who just chucked over thirty years in both Corporate America and Academia (plus a whole host of other fascinating and unrelated career stints, which will be making occasional appearances on these pages). I once delivered a robust commencement speech on the irony of how we interchange the words “Commencement” and “Graduation”; they certainly mean very different things. So, why the change? Why now? More to come on that, but for now, let’s say that a different strain of music kept playing louder and louder in my head. My go-to classical soundtrack was still “Ma Vlast” or “My Homeland” – an incredibly moving and patriotic work by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. But new and discordant tunes kept surfacing. At first, I didn’t understand. And then I travelled to…