Conventional wisdom is that people follow jobs. So the most effective talent attraction and retention strategy, once again according to conventional wisdom, is to create jobs. If conventional wisdom were right Michigan should have reversed the net outmigration of young…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a column for the Financial Times makes the case that talent is what matters most to economic growth. And that place –– particularly vibrant central cities –– is the key to attracting talent. The…
Governor Snyder’s special message on talent is quite remarkable. The fact that there was a special message – reserved for only the state’s top priorities – on talent is noteworthy in and of itself. Believe me talent never before has…
Finally had a chance to read the Knight Foundation's 2010 Soul of the Community report. Conducted by Gallup it identifies the attributes that most drive community attachment. What is of particular interest is the finding that the more attached an…
"Either we get younger and better educated or we get poorer" is the slide we close all our presentations with. It captures our core belief that talent is the asset that matters most to Michigan's future prosperity. And that because…
I took the title from a Nathan Bomey article on annarbor.com. Bomey was writing about a conference about growing the clean energy industry in Michigan. Bomey writes: Ken Nisbet, executive director of U-M's Technology Transfer Office, said investment capital is…
The folks at MiBiz.com were kind enough to ask me again to be one of their guest columnists on what we see happening in 2011. They got quite a distinguished group of Michiganians to write columns. Worth checking out. Below…
About a month ago I received an e mail with the title "Why our growing firm may have to leave Michigan" (you can and should read it here). I assumed that it would be about taxes and/or business costs are…
Good post on quality of place by Rick Haglund at his web site. Its micheconomy.com Worth checking out regularly. Rick always has an interesting take on what's happening to our state's economy. In this blog Rick writes about the wife…