Three traveling men share a motel room. The cost of the room is $30. They each give the attendant $10, and then go to their room. The attendant then decides to discount the room by $5. So, he gives the $5 (in ones) to his son to return to the men. The boy doesn’t know how to split the $5 (five one-dollar bills)  with three people. So, he gives $1 to each man,...

“People do everything,” I heard Dr. Greg Rutherford say at the first Old Town New World Conference. That was something I had been saying in a thousand words and all the time, but never, I don’t think, so succinctly. Technology does nothing, he said. Institutions do nothing. People do everything. It’s funny to encounter ideas that seem to be...

I’m looking forward to presenting at Summer Leadership Institute. I have the honor of unveiling before hundreds of school administrators from all over South Carolina the the Our Education Vision Project. I’m always amazed at what a vision can do in transforming activity into productivity and synergy. And I’m very excited about leveraging...

By simply aligning efforts, goals, and resources, we can have radical positive effect in our communities, our states, and our nation. Infographic on Economic Development An infographic on economic development defining the sectors, often silos, but from which we should find...

The collaborative economy is a both an expanding and a contracting economy. It is expanding as all things are outward, and it is contracting down to the single individual....

We have a fundamental dichotomy in our psyche about capitalism and government. We don’t want too much government in our lives. Yet, we don’t trust the private sector. Who’s more demonized – Wall Street or the Federal Government? I don’t know. Who’s more trusted – the private sector criminal selling his soul to get rich or his...