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Hi everyone. I did an unofficial poll of the size of groups on Smaller Indiana. The top twelve groups I found look like this (my apologies if I missed any): 1 - Business Owners 230 members 2 - 2012 Super Bowl City 207 members 3 - Rainmakers Marketing Group 187 members 4 - Creative Commerce - 181 members 5 - Advocates for Indiana Nonprofits/Community Benefit Organizations (A-IN) 159 members 6 - Smaller Food Indiana 153 members 7 - Greener Indiana 147 members 8 - Web Development in Indiana 144 me… Continue

Society is advancing. There is no doubt that we are moving faster and faster into truly staggering changes. But with every increase in scientific or technological knowledge there is a constructive and destructive potential. We have run rather furiously at science and technology over the last 50 years and are only now starting to realize that many of the new discoveries and technologies we have espoused have really been out of control. Some of the more obvious examples of this dicotomy are nucle… Continue

Rick Smyre, president of Communities of the Future, descirbes a new kind of leadership that is emerging. Rick is a former CEO and he has often shared with me how difficult it was for him to change his thinking and move away from traditional, top-down leadership approaches.

Take a look at this quote from the Communities of the Future website (leadership page) and visit the links below to get an idea of how Rick sees leaders…

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I'm not convinced that there is much clarity on a Brand for Indiana of the Future. Not what industries will we be invovled in, but what will we be known for? What will people think when they think of Indiana? Today, in terms of how people in other regions or cities see Indiana, I think they see corn fields. But I don't beleive that statement is a bash on our capabilities, it is a reflection of our long-term vision.

You see, when people have a clear vision to move forward, and they orga…

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