Attracting the Creative Class

By Katie Terpstra “Keep your tax incentives and highway interchanges; we will go where the highly skilled people are.” Carley Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard CEO Richard Florida, in his book The Rise of the Creative Class, describes the emergence of a new social class, the...

Is it Rural or Urban?

By Pete Julius What is your definition of a rural area? Some people call all non-metropolitan areas rural regions, while others put areas with populations of less than 5,000 people in the rural category. Numerous definitions are used to classify a region as rural or...

Featured Website: MckinseyQuarterly.com

By Jeff Vedders An interesting web site we came across recently was The McKinsey Quarterly at www.mckinseyquartlerly.com.  The McKinsey Quarterly is an on-line journal with articles on business strategy, published by McKinsey & Company, a management consulting...