Economic Development and The Internet

Dicksy said to me the other day, “You need a bigger plate, actually you need a platter.” She said this while I was telling her about what all I had going on with things at work. Of course, I know what she means, but it got me thinking. I want to have more impact that I am having now. I want to affect greater positive change than I am affecting now. And I...

A dear friend of mine just picked up a bike yesterday that he had on layaway for a couple of months. I’d like to be the first in line of 300 million Americans to thank him for using layaway instead of a credit card. My greatest worry about our financial situation is that those in leadership positions seem to think the “answer” is for us to get back...

This morning my wife gave me Gutsy Smurf. We took the kids to see the Smurf movie the other day, and she took them to get Smurf action figures (if you can call them that), and while there, she bought me Gutsy Smurf. She did it because I’ve been a little down lately. Just kind of in a funk. The reason is my relentless desire to do the extraordinary, to go...

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...