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Reinventing Economic Development: Less Action, More Talk If someone tells you that I am all talk and no action now, they would be right. After 30 years, personally on the hook for planning and executing job creation strategies, my job now is to talk about it. One would think that talking about economic development would be lot easier, much less pressure and less productive than actually doing it. This...
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Reinventing Economic Development Tourism to the rescue Premium content from New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, May 25, 2012, 4:00am MDT A couple of things struck me at last week’s annual state tourism conference in Taos. First, tourism people have way more fun than my economic development colleagues. Now I see why John Garcia used to call himself the...
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Read MoreReinventing Economic Development: Obfuscating on Thin Ice
Reinventing Economic Development ‘Obfuscating on thin ice’ Premium content from New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:00am MDT While coming up with an actionable plan for creating jobs is harder than it has ever been, it’s an equally bad time to be trying to fake one. Last year, a business leader from a community that won’t be named sent me a draft of...
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Read MoreReinventing economic development: Why not wing it?
Reinventing economic development: Why not wing it? New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, March 23, 2012, 4:00am MDT Imagine having a life plan to get married, have three kids, put them all through college, pay off a new house and go on a three-week vacation every year, all without a viable career plan. Pretty dumb, isn’t it? Chances are you’d crash and burn. Now imagine...
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Read MoreReinventing economic development: Embrace the wickedness
Reinventing economic development: Embrace the wickedness by Mark Lautman New Mexico Business Weekly Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:00am MST When we came out of recessions in the olden days, recoveries were led by government and corporate investment, followed closely by surges in job creation, increased consumption, GDP growth, a rising stock market and then rising personal wealth, more...
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Read MoreReinventing Economic Development: How not to lose sleep over income inequality
Reinventing Economic Development: How not to lose sleep over income inequality New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:00am MST Recessions are a natural part of the economic cycle. They are how the market purges the excesses and inefficiencies of the economy so a new cycle of prosperity can begin. This one has been dubbed the Great Recession...
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Read MoreReinventing Economic Development: Industrial Revolution 3.0
Reinventing Economic Development: Industrial Revolution 3.0 New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, December 30, 2011, 4:00am MST Which country has the largest share of global manufacturing? Your first thought would probably be China, but that would be wrong. Thanks in part to a big drop in Chinese manufacturing production from the global recession and a surge in...
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