Tag Archives: creatives

Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation and Competitiveness

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 | 2 Comments

What is the Motivation of Making Gangplank Free?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 | 1 Comment

SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 [...]

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The World is Changing and so is our Economy

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

We might be in the midst of a recession, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet. Most of America is not willing to acknowledge a few key concepts.
1. Things won’t bounce back to where they were, expect recovery [...]

Posted in Community, Education, Personal | Tagged chandler, Community, creatives, Creativity, decay, detroit, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, recession, theory, urban decay | 4 Comments

Sunday Book Review: The Great Reset by Richard Florida

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 | Comments Off

Do We Want It Badly Enough?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 | 3 Comments

The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness. It references a 1999 paper from the Morrison Institute The New Economy: A Guide for Arizona. It lists eight principles [...]

Posted in AZ, Gangplank | Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, creatives, economic development, Education, excellence, Gangplank, innovation, new economy, planning, policy, politics, sun corridor | 2 Comments

Sunday Review: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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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

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

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 | 1 Comment

Creative Economy AZ (My Take)

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Derek Neighbors

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 [...]