Product Description
Globalization is upon us and communities are trying to survive and thrive at the same time. building local economies is as much an art as a clandestine science. Learn the tactics and strategies that create world class communities in the 21st century. Holbrook interviews the best and brightest and then creates an easy read on how to apply such lessons in understandable terms and best practice examples…. More >>
The Little Black Book of Economic Development
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Good insight into the world of Economic Development, this is a must read for someone in this field of work.
Rating: 4 / 5
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
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