This year’s thought leadership in focus

Like every Saturday morning this year, we’re thankful for your time today. 

This morning, we’re taking a lookback over 2024 to review some of the most highly circulated Saturday TRC Nexus pieces. 

Our Saturday stories, we hope, help set TRC Nexus apart from other newsletters that you could spend time reading – the topics your read each weekend are birthed from our mission to provide valuable executive communications. Our January 20, 2024 piece penned by TRC President Mike Rusher examined the history and purpose of TRC Nexus in a column that spurred a flurry of new subscribers – we are thankful each time you forward our product throughout the entire year. 

Each week, we aim to produce original content that is both sourced and recommended by senior executives from around the state. The end of the year is an opportunity to look back on the top-performing Saturday pieces – providing our subscribers with an annual review of the key issues, introducing our new subscribers to some of our best content, and to begin dreaming of the best topics to cover in 2025. Let’s hop in: 

Here are the five highest-performing Saturday pieces of 2024:

• December 7th, 2024 | The Charlotte Good Fellows Club: simple, joyful community giving…
• June 8th, 2024 | Promoting world-class fisheries in North Carolina – By: Allen Gant Jr…
• November 2nd, 2024 | Reading the tea leaves in the early voting data – By Mike Rusher…
• May 5th, 2024 | How the Agricultural Commissioner impacts the business community…
• February 3rd, 2024 | Why educating for democracy is at the heart of the UNC mission…

During the holidays and some major milestones, The Results Company CEO Chuck Fuller takes the opportunity to deliver a unique leadership-focused message, centered on the important things in life. Here’s a list of Chuck’s leadership pieces from 2024:

• Easter | Easter, Passover, Forgiveness, and Pursuing Happiness…
• Memorial Day | Connecting to Memorial Day…
• Fourth of July | America is still the best hope in for the world…
• Labor Day | Reflecting on the purpose of work…
• Post-election | Now is the perfect time to look out for others…
• Thanksgiving | When Prayers Are Heard, Answers Come: Finding Peace in Times of Crisis
• Christmas | The Gift of Unity and Freedom.. 

And perhaps most importantly, this fall, TRC Nexus ran a series highlighting some of the structural challenges caused by the governance of North Carolina’s public education system, models of how other states govern their education system, and some possible solutions. Here’s a list of the education pieces we produced: 

• Part One: The divided foundation of North Carolina’s public school system…
• Part Two: Models of education governance benefit different states…
• Part Three: Potential path forward on public education in North Carolina…

We thank you for your readership and would greatly appreciate it if you forwarded this email to colleagues and business associates you believe would benefit from TRC Nexus and encourage them to subscribe. As a reminder, TRC Nexus delivers the need to know news and information Monday through Friday first thing in the morning. Tuesday and Thursday we deliver important opinion pieces at lunch. And Saturday, unique columns that challenge, inspire and inform on topics that matter to business leaders – all of which is made better with your feedback and recommendations. 

We will be back on Monday with our normal content.

We wish you a Happy New Year.