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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Sunday Book Review : I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Great book. Had heard most of the stories or knew most of the information. However, a lot details about the early music scene in the UK pre 1970 was fascinating. [...]
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Political Bites: Landlords Maintaining Rental Properties
Now that more people are renting, what can landlords do to ensure their properties are well maintained?
Hire pool, yard, air conditioning maintenance and roll the cost into the rent. Periodically drive by the property and build a relationship with the [...]
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Rituals Help us Form Emotional Connections
Random note, likely from a book I read. Loved the thought and the implication.
“In all my years helping companies develop and strengthen brands, there’s one thing I’ve seen time and time again: rituals help us form emotional connections with brands [...]
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Brian Cole on Arizona Economic Development April 27th 2010
More AZ Town Hall Notes.. Brian Cole talk.
Calculating your top economic development strategies. Statewide policy. Community focused strategic plans.
Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How we gonna get there?
Traditional Approach
Vision statement
SWOT analysis
Demographic analysis
What have we been doing
What do most [...]
Four Principles of Collaborative Consumption
The four principles of collaborative consumption:
trust between strangers
power of idling capacity
belief in the commons
critical mass
I get to work at trying these out daily in my work at Gangplank and often times helping transform development organizations while consulting at Integrum. I [...]
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Joe Kalt on Arizona Economy April 26th 2010
More notes from Arizona Town Hall in April of 2010. Joesph Kalt an economist from Harvard speaks…
April 2010 Facts
Unemployment rate at national average
Underemployment rate at top (300,000 jobs lost, 1 in 9)
State tax receipts down by 33%
Budget gap largest in [...]
Place Is the Starting Point For Community
Today more than ever, I am reminded that a sense of place is very real, very important and very powerful.
I am driving to the place that I grew up. My car winds through the base of the mountain that my [...]
AZ Town Hall Flashback April 26th 2010
Thoughts from AZ TownHall on Economic Development.. Actually these are notes that never made it in form of prose..
Exposed weakness of state to me
Lack of diversity
Not prepared as a state
Showed we are not competitive
All Arizonians need to make Economic Development [...]
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The Effects of Shifting/Resetting on Society
If you are listening. A lot of people are talking about a “new norm”, a “reset” or a “shift”. Largely this discussion is around economics and growing concerns of debt. In reality it is about a lot more than that.
Every [...]
It’s about people. Companies saying right wage. Wrong skill set.
AZ Tech Council Notes April 20th, 2010
Finding lots of notes.. Don’t have time to assemble them into full thoughts, but figured would share the raw notes..
Dept of commerce reform
Wants stability. Is AZ stable?
Grow new businesses.. Focus on renewable energy
Texas has [...]
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