http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2005/11/iu-panels-business-outlook-charming-and-wretched.html Personal Blog for James Christopher Hardie Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2005/11/iu-panels-business-outlook-charming-and-wretched.html#comment-383 Don Holbrook Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:04:25 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/?p=109#comment-383 We can change our future by agreeing to invest in the necessary infrastructure that is required to be competitive but it takes calculated risks and sustained efforts at facing the reality of what it takes to succeed. It also means losing old efforts that no longer work and trying new things. No one else will do this for us. We have to believe enough in ourselves to make the necessary investments. We cannot expect the market to do it for us nor the private sector to have the answers. The private sector is not a great catalyst. This is the purpose of the EDC... to lead us into new venues that are based on accepted and desired principles attrative to private sector companies and become an advocate for change and progress and taking the calculated investment risks to get us to the new outcomes we all desire. Many communities are thriving in these times and they all have that common element of self-driven investments in their vision for the future. It is up to us all to try to get outside of the box on how to achieve these new economic goals. We can change our future by agreeing to invest in the necessary infrastructure that is required to be competitive but it takes calculated risks and sustained efforts at facing the reality of what it takes to succeed. It also means losing old efforts that no longer work and trying new things. No one else will do this for us. We have to believe enough in ourselves to make the necessary investments. We cannot expect the market to do it for us nor the private sector to have the answers. The private sector is not a great catalyst. This is the purpose of the EDC... to lead us into new venues that are based on accepted and desired principles attrative to private sector companies and become an advocate for change and progress and taking the calculated investment risks to get us to the new outcomes we all desire. Many communities are thriving in these times and they all have that common element of self-driven investments in their vision for the future. It is up to us all to try to get outside of the box on how to achieve these new economic goals.

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