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By Dean Whittaker For Your Reading List Leadership is one of the keys to success for organizations. A humorously illustrated booklet written to emphasize this important topic is The Ten Commandments of Community Leadership by Maury Forman and Michelle Harvey. It is a...

The Art of Raising Capital

By Dean Whittaker Access to capital has long been the key to economic success.  Whether it is from savings, friends and families, venture capital firms, or borrowed from a bank, capital is a key component to economic growth. Recently, I attend a panel discussion by a...

Leadership, Courage, and Faith

By Dean Whittaker Last Wednesday, when my cell phone rang at 4:18 AM, I thought it was my alarm to wake me for my 7:15 AM flight to Lexington, KY.  I was to teach the following day at the Kentucky Economic Development Institute. But, instead it was Delta Airlines...