What would a Progressive City do? Hire Rebecca Ryan.
Submitted by scharton on Fri, 01/27/2006 - 08:17.
Once again, Rebecca Ryan has drawn a crowd for a lecture. Think you can't get people to attend an event, try getting them to a TALK! Rebecca draws them in with her smarts and her humor.
Her message: Wake the heck up!
Talent is the shortage looming on the horizon. The competitioin for talent is fierce and is international (not just Merced and Bakersfield).
A substantial number of people choose where they live based on things like recreation, health, entertainment, lifestyle, diversity, lifelong education, and employment options.
So cities need to be in a state of personal improvement. Building on their assetts, changing the way that they think or do things, and getting rid of the things that aren't serving them well.
And how do progressive cities do these things? They hire people with experience. Or, they train the heck out of people to give them knowledge, until they have experience. Rebecca Ryan is working for cities and states helping them to attract potential boomerangs. Please, Mayor, Economic Development Dapartment/Agencies, Redevelopment Board, business community, someone...let's hire someone who knows what they're doing and learn in the process.
Time is a-wastin'.
More excuses...
Yeah, people will use anything for an excuse. In Houston it's the humidity, L.A. it's the traffic, here it's the heat. No one spends any time outside here anyway! And it's not because of the heat. Check out NYC, Baghdad, Miami...all these places are hot, and people get by just fine.
so so true
As someone who's visited Chicago in July and lived in NYC I can say for a fact that 100 degree's here is cush compaired to 85 degrees in NYC. The stories are true... it's miserable. And to top it off, Fresna's have their cars... in cities with public transportation the heat is unbearable.
Google stock down
Is that what caused their stock to go down? haha!
I get the weather point. I guess if your talented enough to work anywhere (and not tied down), why choose Fresno? (besides the point that Fresno is cheap and close to other cool CA cities).
Google is Expanding to Phoenix
800 engineers in Phoenix (can you imagine the economic impact of that?). All the heat with no mountains or coast to escape to. When I saw this, I know that heat could no longer be our excuse.
http://www.google.com/press/annc/phoenix.html
Craig
What is an authentic community?
Re: Weather
Ever visit New York City or Chicago in July or August? The heat here ISN'T that bad.
Weather?
Environmental weather on your list? Fresno, the irrigated desert, could be too hot for us creative types.
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