Girls Just Wanna Have Fun . . .

Can you be somewhere in your '60's and still be a Wild Child? Just look at - don't even ask - Cyndi Lauper, the pink-haired rocker, a Bronx Baby, an icon from another age.

We take this mini-dynamo not nearly seriously enough. She has conquered every musical genre she's encountered, and has recently released an album of country classics, many done as duets with stars plucked from the firmament of constellations making up a sky full of variations of real people's real music, i.e., C&W.

This bubble gum princess now has won a Tony, a Grammy, and an Emmy. Not bad for a flash in the pan from another age.

She's in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, and has won numerous other awards and recognitions, including an Olivier. Genres? Try pop, rock, synthpop, blues, soul, new wave, and, now, country. Oh, yeah, Broadway musicals, too.

Somehow, Cyndi finds time to support medical causes and is an LGBT activist. Right time, right place counts for something in everyone's career progression.

Heather Wood in the Chicagoland area is a powerful multi-genre talent. And, in, of all places, the Kodiak Inn (KI) on Alaska's Kodiak Island hosts an undiscovered super-nova on Friday evenings who can do any song by anybody as well as the original, backed by a very capable house band with a couple of killer guitar men.

In our supply chain lives, we've got to be Cyndi Lauper almost every day, doing and/or leading every job for every customer, for every product or line, all the while dealing with the cards that procurement and the supply base have dealt us.

Some days that means we've got to put on our pink hair and kinky boots - whatever it takes.