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"At lunch the other day with local Green Architect, Bill Dodi, talking about the principle of local self-sustainability. This is the idea that an area uses its local talent and natural resources to produce goods and services for local people who use and reuse these goods and services in ways that continue to grow and sustain the local value cycle. The opposite is instances and trends where a local market-ecology tries to use imported talent and resources to produce goods and services for non-local people in ways that grow non-local value cycles - in the process, creating a spiral of local degeneration and unsustainability. Let's use this lens as we think and act on global and local scales."

What are you doing to create value for this region? Jack's model is that 90% of the corporate coaching he does is with clients in Northeast Ohio. We should think about these things as we banter ideas about on trying to be globally competitive, building convention centers, and holding on to assumptions that local talent and resources are any less worthy than those imported and exported.