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Contact: Don Holbrook
Phone: (928) 706-4440
“LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT”
A BLUEPRINT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
LAKE HAVASU CITY, ARIZONA, DECEMBER 7, 2007: Today economic development has been in the trenches fighting for the veritable survival of American jobs in the global economy. This process is full of challenges and most of our previous plays in the playbook are ineffective against the current tide of change.
Economic Developers need to understand the basic skills and resources necessary to compete, survive and thrive in this new global environment. The ability to create World Class local economies that are both sustainable and transformational in nature is essential as part of today’s economic development playbook. Turn the tide and the table on your global opponents and create a strategy to win in the 21st century.
See what more than 55 economic developers and countless key-leaders have to say about best practices that are effective at creating competitive advantage for American Economic Developers today.
This book is a perfect gift for your board of directors, staff and political associates and key-leaders within your community. Contact the author for orders greater than 5 books and receive a 10% discount at The author will also sign all books ordered through him direct.
"If 'Little Black Book' means the-best-thinking-from-a-wide-range-of-economic developers-all-in-one-place, then you need to read this book."
"Don and I are kindred spirits in our mission to wake up the sleeping giant of economic development in this country. Don't push the snooze button again; buy this book and breathe it in."
Rebecca Ryan, Author of Live First Work Second"Don Holbrook's solution-oriented Little Black Book of Economic Development is an antidote to the idea that globalization is merely a threat that must be slowed or even reversed. He promotes self-reliance tempered with the understanding that it is in communities' and nations' best interest to invest in all members of society. His forward-looking approach to economic development is refreshing and urgently needed at a time when the airwaves are dominated by those who would have Americans put our heads in the sand."
Michele Wucker, author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right"Don Holbrook's book is the blueprint for a new kind of economic development. Read it if you care about readying your community for the 21st century."
Richard Florida, Author of The Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class"These are challenging times, a fact that too many Americans and their
leader’s still fail to understand. Holbrook argues persuasively that our
corporate and community leaders must work much harder to remain competitive in the 21st century."
Richard Judy, Author of Workforce 2020
Listen to a testimonial for, "The Little Black Book," by Jeff Finkle, CEcD, President/CEO, The International Economic Development Council, IEDC (2 mins. 30 secs.):
