cross posted from Wiseeconomy.com. I am currently preparing a revision to my first book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. I decided to update it to capture some of the things I've learned since it was first published in 2013. Look for the new and improved version later this year. …
Continue reading Wise Economy Manifesto 3.0: White (elite) saviors fail most of the time
Cross posted from Wiseeconomy.com I am currently preparing a revision to my first book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. I decided to update it to capture some of the things I've learned since it was first published in 2013. Look for the new and improved version later this year. …
Continue reading Wise Economy Manifesto 3.0: Cultivate native economic species
Cross posted from Wiseeconomy.com I am currently preparing a revision to my first book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. I decided to update it to capture some of the things I've learned since it was first published in 2013. Look for the new and improved version later this year. …
Continue reading Wise Economy Manifesto 3.0: Human communities are human ecosystems.
Cross posted from Wiseeconomy.com. I am currently preparing a revision to my first book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. I decided to update it to capture some of the things I've learned since it was first published in 2013. Look for the new and improved version later this year. …
**Cross posted from Wiseeconomy.com I am currently preparing a revision to my first book, The Local Economy Revolution: What's Changed and How You Can Help. I decided to update it to capture some of the things I've learned since it was first published in 2013. Look for the new and improved version later this winter. …
Continue reading Wise Economy Manifesto 3.0: Fusion Economy vs. Industrial economy
The international tech mega-conference South By Southwest Interactive has been showing more and more interest in remaking local government in recent years. But even though conference organizers pretty clearly want to talk about it, they seem to get only a few submissions for panels or presentations on those topics. As you might guess if you've …
Continue reading Story Time: Help share The Local Economy Revolution at SXSW 2016
The International Economic Development Council’s ED Now ran anarticle last week that I wrote to explain why economic development people should be thinking about how to do public engagement more effectively — and why the ways we’ve been taught (or not taught) to “engage” the public so often end in anger and misery — for the public, and for …
My friend Sara Dunnigan just announced that she is leaving the world of consulting to become the Executive Director of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, a job that perfectly fits the most enthusiastic Make Our Existing Businesses More Successful professional in the economic development profession. Thankfully, before she moved on, she wrote up her research …
Continue reading Do Business Recruitment and Retention Right: a guide from Sara Dunnigan
OK. I wouldn't know the person who wrote this if they bit me, but I think I am in love... both because of the valuable insight this person brings to a crucial issue, and because... well, anyone who names their blog "Nonprofit With Balls" is my kinda people. Anyone who touches communities that aren't completely …
What-you-do-will-have-impacts-you-didn't-expect is probably one of the strongest themes in the Local Economy Revolution Book. As I describe in there, one of my earliest encounters with the profession of planning resulted from being hip-deep in the aftereffects of a massive urban renewal project in Green Bay, Wisconsin. No matter what I did, where I was, which building I …
