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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
Great Falls Development Authority
Come Home Montana
- GFDA Top 12 12/22/13
Here's the GFDA Top 12 for this week, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward!
Montana Business
- Montana Career Opportunity - Director of Rental Strategy - NeighborWorks Great Falls
Develop rental strategy with the overall purpose of improving neighborhoods, providing an income stream and creating more affordable, quality rentals.
Montana Economic Development
- Steve Weber, a.k.a Forrest Gump - Make Your Next Meeting Memorable & Impactful
Steve's uncanny resemblance to Forrest Gump, the timbre of his voice and just enough southern drawl delights, amuses, and inspires the people who hear Steve or Forrest.
- Montana's Wally Congdon ensures top flavor with his grass-fed Highland Cattle
"If you know what people want, you can plan for it in advance."
- Program makes it easier for Montana businesses to be green
More than two dozen now can say they are certified green by Lewis and Clark County's "Green Business Program," according to Sustainability Director Elisa Prescott.
MSU Leadership Institute & UM Global Leadership Initiative
- New Deer Lodge Development Group hopes to further economic development of Deer Lodge
The Deer Lodge Development Group http://www.deerlodgedevelopmentgroup.org/ plans to work with business owners and local politicians to try and revitalize and restore the town.
Careers
- Leadership books to watch for in 2014
We scanned publishers' lists for the books coming out in early 2014 that are worth checking out.
Government
- How College Business Plan Competitions Can Help Your Career
Don't take my word for it. Look around at work. I bet that those who advance quickly have these skills.
Idaho Business
- Srirachagate Gives a Window Into California's Business Climate Problem
It's the regulatory apparatus that makes doing business in many places too painful to contemplate.
Regional Economic Development
- GoGo Labs - Boise State's First Start-Up is On the Go
Conceived on campus, a game-based teaching platform branches out as a private business
Wyoming Business
- Cities learning that parking not a necessary part of new development
These projects prove that providing parking isn't necessary to lure residents, even in cities not named New York.
Education
- Wyoming company plans business park at former Texaco Refinery site
"It's great," Evansville Mayor Phil Hinds said. "We've known this has been in the works for a while and are looking forward to adding those 135 acres to the tax base."
Community
- Colleges Trim Staffing Bloat
After years of cuts in state subsidies and growing resistance to rising tuition, U.S. colleges and universities are starting to unwind decades of administrative bloat and back-office waste that helped push up costs and tuition.
Funding and Building your Business
- Fourteen NEW grant announcements
- Forget Golf Courses: Subdivisions with Farms Draw Residents
"Golf courses cost millions to build and maintain, and we're kind of overbuilt on golf courses already," he says. "If you put in a farm where we can grow things and make money from the farm, it becomes an even better deal."
- Greensburg, Kansas a model for sustainable community development
"In general, we want a town that can compete for good jobs and quality of life, and having a sustainable city is part of that equation."
- It's Police vs. Pedestrians
These pedestrians are confronting not only the police, but a historically entrenched car culture that has long defined the experience of living and working.
Energy and Climate Change
- Six Reasons Strategic Plans Fail
There are six things I would encourage you to consider as you go through the strategic planning exercise.
- A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun
There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks:
The Creative and Cultural Economy
- Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming
"As snowmen and snowwomen, we accept the inevitability of melting, but the actions of man are causing us to evaporate well before our time."
- Research shows extreme climate events are the new norm
It's unsettling to think about the implications of extreme climate events and the reality that global warming may make severe weather much more frequent and even more extreme.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
- Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky celebrates debut season
"Just because people move to a ski resort doesn't mean that they move away from the arts," Miller said in a promotional video for the center.
- PointGrab Lets You Control Your Kitchen With a Wave of Your Hand
PointSwitch may even help advance a new design aesthetic that's sweeping high-end European kitchens: the handle-free kitchen. Without handles, cabinets and appliances blend seamlessly for a modern, sleek look.
- A Dishwasher You Can Text? It's Coming to CES 2014.
For instance, if you're going away for two weeks and want your fridge to enter energy saving mode, just text, "I'm going on vacation."
- A bioprinting pen 'draws' living cells onto damaged bone
Borrowing concepts from 3D printing, scientists in Australia say they've come up with a device and a technique that could allow surgeons to precisely deliver live cells and growth factors directly onto damaged bones to help regenerate bone and cartilage.
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