Getting Ready . . .
Workforce I’ve been spending time this month getting ready for this year’s Advanced Economic Development Leadership Program being held in Kansas City in October. Since 2018, I’ve been asked to speak about...
Do You Need to Know Nagi?
Workforce This article from The Guardian is not current, but it’s relevant. It’s the story of a town in Japan whose circumstances are familiar there and may sound familiar to many of you – losing population,...
Want to be Business-Friendly?
Marketing Places Hey, my economic development friends, want to make a business-friendly move? Businesses have a new item on their to-do list that they didn’t ask for – deciding if, what and how to communicate to employees and to...
Words Matter
Workforce Words matter, so let’s talk about the Talent Disconnect instead of the War for Talent, or worse yet, the War on Talent. Framing it as a war means we are setting ourselves up for an outcome of winners and losers....