A Few of My Least Favorite Things – #3
Redesign Your Data I have a real love-hate relationship with these bubble charts, at least as they are commonly seen and used in economic development. OK, really, mostly a hate relationship. That’s not because they are a bad way...
A Place I’ll Remember – February 2023
A Place I'll Remember Why Maryland? Because it’s going to take a bunch of experiments and a bunch of small victories to move the needle on workforce challenges, and they have some good examples in the pipeline. First, almost a year ago...
Getting ***** Done
accelerating execution Now, to balance out my discussion of some of my least favorite things, here’s one of my new favorite things. Problem is, I don’t know exactly what to call it to make sense to you – virtual...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things – #2
Redesign Your Data We are living in a world where 3-D has become so boring it’s time to move on to the meta-verse, but our human brains still process statistics best in good old-fashioned 2-D. Excel offers 3-D options for many of their...
A Place I’ll Remember – January 2023
A Place I'll Remember The topic is arts as economic development, which is you know me you might guess I have a soft spot for. I think it’s important for a couple of key reasons. First, artists are adventurous – they will be...
Reboot Your Workforce Story Updates
Kate McEnroe On Demand This month there is a lot of editing going on over at Kate McEnroe on Demand. If you’ve been a student of Reboot Your Workforce Story, log back in to your student account to see the updated lesson attachments,...
A Place I’ll Remember – December 2022
A Place I'll Remember Talent recruitment programs targeted at bring people “home” have been going on for a while, and for a while Michigan communities have been capitalizing on the holiday seasons to encourage people to come back home...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things #1
Redesign Your Data This is a visualization of a pretty typical economic development data set – employment by industry. Is it hard to read? Do you think it would matter if I enlarged it? Made it in another program? Well, maybe,...