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Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation and Competitiveness
This past April I attended the 96th Arizona Town Hall in Tucson Arizona. The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona serves as background information on the event. The result of the Town Hall was a set of recommendations (pdf). Recently [...]
Posted in AZ, Community, Education, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, music, phoenix, planning, policy, politics
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If You Play the Numbers Game, You Will Always Lose When Trying to Change the World
Why do we focus so much on attendance numbers when trying to make change? The truth is that numbers can deceive us and give us a false sense of progress. Let me give you an example.
Recently and event was held [...]
Creativity, Kryptonite to Complexity and Key to the Future
IBM recently released a study on rising complexity in organizations and cited that “creativity” is the key leadership trait that was allowing companies to stand out. It is what CEO’s find most valuable.
Despite this realization we still have an educational [...]
What is the Motivation of Making Gangplank Free?
A common question is “How does Gangplank work? Why is everything free?”. The common theory is that if you don’t charge people something they won’t see any value in it. Maybe if they are working on an assembly line, but [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
Tagged creative class, creatives, excellence, incentives, motivation, theory
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SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Seth is back. He really gets it right on this one. This is an excellent book to pair with Richard Florida’s Reset. The world and they [...]
Posted in Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, discipline, economic development, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, reading
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Sunday Book Review: The Great Reset by Richard Florida
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Richard Florida returns to form in this book. He is spot on in his assessments of our current [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Education, Sunday Book Review
Tagged creative class, creatives, downtown, economic development, Education, innovation, planning, reading, reset
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Do We Want It Badly Enough?
Richard Florida a leading economist talks answers the question “Will Phoenix rise from the ashes?“.
I am a firm believer that in fact we do need to build on our assets. I say this every chance I get. I often wonder [...]
Posted in AZ, Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, assets, creative class, creatives, desire, economic development, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Sunday Review: Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Book felt forced. It would have been just as good being only half as [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, policy
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Creative Economy AZ (My Take)
Based on the Gangplank Futurespective, one thing I promised myself to investigate was Creative Economy AZ. This is an initiative to raise 1/10th of cent sales tax for the next 20 years to help fund the arts. I spent a [...]
Posted in Creativity, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, economic development, Gangplank, music, phoenix, policy, politics
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Commentary on Whats Wrong With Downtown Phoenix
Last week Tyler Hurst made a post on what’s wrong with downtown Phoenix. There is certainly one thing he got absolutely right, “Downtown Phoenix isn’t about businesses, buildings or parks. It’s about people. Those that live, work and/or play here [...]
Posted in Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, downtown, economic development, motivation, phoenix
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