Oregon's leadership to convene to discuss the Oregon Business Plan
Saturday, December 07, 2002
On Monday, Oregon's business and political leaders will gather for a full day to discuss the Oregon Business Plan, an effort to redefine the responsibilities of business and government to re-ignite growth. Governor-elect Ted Kulongoski and dozens of Oregon legislators are expected to attend.
The Oregon Business Plan places much of the burden of change on the state's political leadership: "timid, small-minded and shortsighted public leadership", as one journalist notes.
Here's the challenge: Can the state's leadership develop a collaborative approach to addressing these challenges? And here's the risk: the state's business leadership may not be speaking in terms that political leaders can or will understand. (Political logic is different than business logic, a fact too few business leaders appreciate.)
Take, for example, the president of Associated Oregon Industries who today writes, "A recipe for an Oregon economic comeback: Fifty-four ways Oregon can save its own economic bacon." These type of laundry lists rarely do anything but inflame opposition. Read more. Go.
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Oregon's leadership to convene to discuss the Oregon Business Plan
