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Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, plays the audience at Davos. The job of leaders, he tells us, is to “awaken possibility in other people”.
Tag: Leadership
The Edible Town
A wonderful idea picked from work David Barrie was doing in Middlesborough. Designing a town/city/community/region around food supply. Perhaps this is a way forward for the £50 million Lottery bid for the Black Country Urban Park.
The Revolt of Common Sense – Larry Lessig
Highbury 2.0
In the 1989’s Birmingham’s leaders gathered at Highbury Hall in Moseley for a summit meeting. It was the second time such a gathering had happened and Highbury 2 spawned the idea to break the concrete collar which was stranggling the growth of the city centre.
With the ring road down it is 2007 and Stef Lewandowski is now proposing a crowdsourced future for the city centre, using us and a wiki to shape where next. Highbury 2.0 has my support, how about you?