by Maury Forman | Sep 1, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
My children had such great ideas. They were so good that I thought they would grow up to be famous inventors. My one son dreamed of inventing the perfect time machine, one that would whisk him briefly back to 1975 so he could buy Microsoft stock 11 years before it...
by Maury Forman | Jul 29, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
I hate to admit it, but Make America Great Again is a great marketing campaign and sound bite. That said, if you ask people what made America great in the past and what will make it great in the future the answers are all over the place. I could spend an entire blog...
by Maury Forman | Jan 30, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
Here we are. It’s February. The days are still woefully short, but the promise of longer days ahead keeps us chugging through the dank and dark, anxious for the spring thaw to arrive once again. But more than freezing weather, or Presidents Day or being the...
by Maury Forman | Jun 30, 2017 | Entrepreneurs
Some years ago I wrote a training exercise with a site selector. It was based on a parody of Paul Simon’s 1975 hit, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. I called it 50 Ways to Leave a Community. Terribly witty, I know. The goal of the exercise was to identify what communities...
by Maury Forman | Jul 6, 2016 | Entrepreneurs
I gave a lot of thought about what I should write about this month. There seems to be no shortage of topics to cover about economic development and entrepreneurship. But I feel that over the last two years I may have covered most of the subjects people beside me would...
by Maury Forman | May 24, 2016 | Entrepreneurs
I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership lately. It’s not necessarily my fault. Hardly a day goes by when we’re not bombarded with the latest notions and pseudo-epiphanies about what a leader should or shouldn’t be. Last year alone, almost 1,500 paperbacks were...
by Maury Forman | Apr 13, 2016 | Economic Development, Entrepreneurs
Are you sitting down? Good. I want the world to know that I think recruiting business is the most effective economic development strategy around. What? Has Maury finally lost it? For years you’ve heard me speak and write that recruitment is the devil’s work. And now I...
by Maury Forman | Feb 18, 2016 | Entrepreneurs
I saw the movie Joy the other day. It is the story of the inventor of the Miracle Mop and the dynasty its inventor created all because she wouldn’t let go of her dreams. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the Reader’s Digest version: “Facing betrayal, treachery, the...
