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Future. Economy. Council. Leadership Catawba 2010 Terry Bledsoe, Catawba County January 14, 2010. 80.

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  1. Future Economy Council Leadership Catawba 2010 Terry Bledsoe, Catawba County January 14, 2010

  2. 80 “There is a force for change that’s basically invisible using old ways of seeing. It’s a force we have to let collide with and even destroy our old ideas about how the world should be before we can hope to make any sense at all” Age of the Unthinkable, Ramo 10

  3. ? Events Cause us to 9/11 recession Job Losses 15.7% Oil China Terrorist technology greed

  4. What People Saying Are

  5. “Good area to raise a family – schools are some of the best.” “We have a horrible “Brain Drain” “I have served on a number of committees lately and they are all trying to fight the same fight.” “When someone finishes school they are looking for a high paying job.” “We are not growing. We are not letting the world know we exist.”

  6. “I don’t know what those people are doing but they are showing up at the post office with buckets of mail.” “We want startups here, better bandwidth, infrastructure, incubator and incentives for startups.” “We are gearing things around what we did 20 years ago.” “Fractured marketing – we have separate websites.” “What did we do wrong?.” “We want educated people with money.”

  7. Re thinking Every thing

  8. How? Do You move an Entire Region to a Higher Level? Sharing Partnerships Connections Opportunities

  9. Yes BUT What is the Future Economy Council?

  10. The Future Economy Council is…. a group that is working to developtransformational leadersin Catawba County, able to understand and utilize the skills of building capacities to create a more resilient economy. a very Diverse Group working with Rick Smyre, Communities of the Future developing Master Capacity Builders

  11. Master Capacity Builders Objectives: • To develop new ways of thinking about the future • To be able to identify trends and weak signals • To be able to ask appropriate questions • To be able to listen for value and find new connections • To be able to connect diverse ideas and people for continuous innovation • To understand how to create "innovation networks" • To design and evolve parallel processes • To be able to identify and utilize new and emerging patterns • To be able to think systemically at a higher level of complexity • To be able take appropriate individual and team risks to develop new ideas and methods

  12. Weak are seeds of change that exist today and they can tell about big trends in the future. are something odd or strange today. signals

  13. Trends and Weak • For the first time in human history, children are authorities on a central innovation – the new digital media. This generation gap has its implications • Universal connectivity. What does that mean? • Jobs that do not require proximity. • Universal competition? • Ubiquitous, unprecedented access to information. • Universal collaboration? signals

  14. Questions signals • What was it like when we couldn’t get an answer in 5 minutes or less? • Could you manage your staff in 140 characters or less? • Could a Tweet overthrow a dictator? • How did Social Media affect the elections? • What is Apple really up to?

  15. What? • Williams and Sonoma • Apple Computers • Restoration Hardware • Pirates of the Caribbean • Phil Specter Murder Trial Do the following have in common?

  16. What? Our manufacturing attitude Culture of a hardworking workforce Quality of life Large track of land devoted to data centers, power, water, fiber. Could hire people from the area Did Apple Like About US ?

  17. 90s Diversification 1999

  18. Parallel Processes • Heat, Beat and Treat tradition based. • Are we looking at nanotechnology? • Manufacturing using natural principles? • Energy opportunities? • Creative processes? • Are we looking at opportunities that make us more resilient in the future?

  19. Age Creative Molecular • What are the talent and creative resources that are here now? • What are we doing to support and encourage those people? • Only a few jobs??? • Think about the past and all the businesses that started here in the Hickory area.

  20. Closing “There is a huge disparity between the persons sitting in this room and the average worker in Catawba County. ” Scott Millar August 2009 Future Economy Council Meeting Thoughts…

  21. Future Economy Planning for Extraordinary Change for Business Catawba County Chamber of Commerce October 2, 2009 Council Leadership Catawba 2010 Terry Bledsoe, Catawba County January 14, 2010

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