Product Description
Author’s Book Overview: China and India are on the rise! The United States is sending jobs overseas! What is the 21st century coming to? Communities are hapless in their knowledge of how to respond at the local level to global pressures and competition. Holbrook calls his fellow economic developers to arms to address these daunting times and create unprecedented new opportunities for America’s future. Don Holbrook sees the U.S. in a global economic struggl… More >>
The Little Black Book of Economic Development
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#1 by Bryan Gay on April 16, 2010 - 2:16 am
Good insight into the world of Economic Development, this is a must read for someone in this field of work.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Daryl D. Phillips on April 16, 2010 - 3:02 am
This is the book I’d require any new economic development professional in my organization to read… and encourage any public official or community leader honestly working to improve our community’s economic development to read this book and understand its message.
Mr. Holbrook’s The Little Black Book of Economic Development is much more than this, but it is worth its cost just for the list of supportive quotations from a ‘who’s who’ list of economic development professionals from across the country.
Daryl Phillips, CEcD
Hickman County Economic & Community Development Association
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Don Holbrook on April 16, 2010 - 5:16 am
This book will give you an insiders view of just how the real world of high stakes negotiations for local economies is being fought… it is the true Art of the Deal today. If you want to understand how community economies can work and should work as well as the dark side of this industry. This book has over 50 insiders comments on their own experiences and best practice examples.
Rating: 5 / 5