Just in Case
Redesign Your Data Economic developers who spend time working with their employers to solve staffing issues may have a new challenge in store. On average, estimates are that one in 20 people in the U.S. workforce are unauthorized...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2024
A Place I'll Remember This month A Place I’ll Remember is a little different. Bray, Ireland is my base camp for month one of a three month European adventure. I can’t claim any expertise at all about the current state and the future of...
The 65-30-65 project
Uncategorized Like all of you, there is a whole lot to my world that doesn’t show up in these newsletters or on my LinkedIn posts. For several years, I’ve maintained a separate web site, newsletter and Instagram account...
Visualizing a Shared Reality
Redesign Your Data If you want everyone in your community on the same page, they have to have the same information, and data visualization can help you with that. Lets’ start with this chart from the Congressional Budget Office. It...
A Place I’ll Remember – October 2024
A Place I'll Remember Creative solutions arise from difficult circumstances and the courage to try something new. When faced with low unemployment constraining both hiring and production, DS Smith chose to lean fully in to what it took to...
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...
Big Trouble from a Small Chart
Redesign Your Data See this chart? Nothing wrong with it really, but boy has it created communication challenges. This is the classic graphic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but you’ve probably seen versions of it...
A Place I’ll Remember – September 2024
A Place I'll Remember I’m not generally a fan of age-specific “talent” attraction efforts, but I do appreciate that Tulsa has decided to announce a resolution declaring itself to be a “retirement destination city”, and to seek AARP’s “age...