Category Archives: Longform
Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future
I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
Getting Strategic About Skills
NOTE: This is the third in our recent “let’s share the findings from all those OECD reports with each other (and the world)” series. Again, the content is not likely scintillating, but it’s important to us, and we’re happy to let you in on it. The OECD Designing Local Skills Strategies Report (2009) focuses largely [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Community, Economy, Regions, skills, workforce Tagged community, diadvantaged, economy, governance, leadership, OECD, placement, policy, sectors, skills, strategies, talent, training, upskilling, workforce Leave a comment
Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills
NOTE: This is a continuation of the series we warned you about a few days ago. We are summarizing several large reports for each other (members of the Community Team at CSW), but we’re doing it here so you can benefit too – you know, if you are interested (since you found your way here [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Economy, skills, workforce Tagged community, competitiveness, economy, human capital, human rsources, jobs, labor market, labour market, local, national, OECD, policy, prosperity, skills, workforce, workforce development Leave a comment
Big Changes at Work
Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
Also posted in Social Change, Work and Learning 2.0, Young People Tagged diversity, economy, growth, learning, millenials, recession, sustainability, talent, technology, trends, workers, workforce, workforce demographics Leave a comment
What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery
NOTE: We’ll be be posting findings from a few papers we’re reviewing with the intent of sharing with colleagues. We’re doing this here so that you might benefit from them too, but wanted to warn you before you read too far. We just reviewed Regions Matter (OECD, November 2009). It’s chalk full of bits and [...]
Also posted in Economy, Regions, Resilience Tagged Collaboration, economic growth, economy, gorwth, governance, innovation, leadership, OECD, policy, Regions, workforce 2 Comments
Economic Transformation in Northeastern Ohio
Promising Practices in Regional Economic Development: Northeast Ohio Last week, I attended an event focused on the importance of regional planning, partnerships between government, workforce, education, and economic development, and how encouraging entrepreneurship in regions can help spur economic growth and prevent further population loss. My own organization, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), has [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Community, Entrepreneurship, Regions Tagged Cleveland, community, economic development, Entrepreneurship, funders collaborative, Northern Ohio, region, Regions, strategy, transformation Leave a comment
New Approaches for Young Wish-They-Were-Workers
Really high unemployment among youth. One of the most alarming bits of bad news in a sea of unwelcome statistics about unemployment, is just how bad it is for the young American worker these days. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that the proportion of young people employed in July was 51.4 percent, “the [...]
Also posted in Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized, Young People Tagged facebook, jobs, social media, unemployment, workforce, Young People, youth Leave a comment
Revisiting Our Community Agility Ecosystem
What’s Community Agility? Two years ago – when we launched the Community Initiatives Team – agility was on ours minds. Pre-recession, we were hearing flat, but seeing spiky. Our team members live and work in regions as diverse as Portland (OR), Tucson (AZ), Charlotte (NC), and all over Michigan. So while the U.S. economy at [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Community, Gov20, Regions, Social Change, Treasures, Uncategorized Tagged agility, change, community, entrepreneurial culture, Entrepreneurship, gov2.0, Gov20, innovation, networks, resilience, smart cities, smart communities, Social Innovation Leave a comment
Tough Times in Regional Detroit
Unemployment in Macomb County I recently met with a Macomb county commissioner whose district is embedded in the metro Detroit region of roughly 5 million people. The commissioner was concerned because, despite state unemployment in excess of 15%, county unemployment exceeded 16%, and pockets in her district face rates as high as 25%. “We’re heading [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Resilience, Social Innovation, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized Tagged agility, community, Detroit, engagement, innovation, investment, outcomes, participation, resilience 1 Comment
Hometown Advantage with a “D”