As a provocative speaker and evangelist for building innovation economies, Rules of the Rainforest author Greg Horowitt asks questions, lots of questions. Horowitt was back with the EDC board recently and came with a list of questions that demand to be asked and answered if we aspire to take the regional economy to the next level of prosperity and raise awareness of San Diego as a global player. Here is the first question:
Who are your leaders and what are their characteristics and effectiveness? It’s a good group to ask about leadership. Depending on what you read, you might look around to find the “San Diego 20,” as a Voice of San Diego article quoted someone calling them. If you’re a fan of Jim Clifton’s book “The Coming Jobs War,” you might see San Diego’s “tribal leaders.” Representatives of San Diego’s trade associations and the venerable CONNECT in attendance personify what economic competitiveness guru Michael Porter calls the “informal networks” that make San Diego’s innovation economy work.
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