By Dean Whittaker The Poem, “If,” by Rudyard Kipling comes to mind as I reflect on the times. Here’s a section from it as a reminder and a link to the entire poem: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If...
By Saurav Rajbhandari Extracting oil and natural gas from shale started from The Barnett Shale located in Texas more than a decade ago. The Barnett shale in Texas and Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania are two of the largest producers of Shale oil and gas. Apart from...
By Dean Whittaker This month I had the privilege to speak about the future of work at the Annual Award Luncheon of the Rockland County New York Economic Development Corporation. Rockland County is on the border of New York and New Jersey on the West side of the Hudson...
By Dean Whittaker What incentives would you offer to a company that would create 50 jobs with an average pay of $80,000 per year? What if I told you that it would cost you nothing? It sounds too good to be true, right? Actually, these jobs/workers are already in your...
By Dean Whittaker The closing session at this year’s International Economic Development Council meeting was a panel discussion with a group of Site Location Consultants. The panelists discussed trends they observed and concluded with a “wish list” of what economic...
