Richard Florida on CBC’s Sounds Like Canada
For those of you who don’t listen to CBC radio (shame on you!) I thought I would fill you in on something you really shouldn’t miss.
This Monday, starting at 10:00 am, Shelagh Rogers will have Richard Florida on as a guest on her show Sounds Like Canada. This from the CBC website…
Coming Up: Monday March 31
Richard Florida is a public intellectual and best selling author. After a twenty year university career in the U.S., last fall he moved to Toronto to become the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
His new book is called, “Who’s Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life“. He speaks to Richard - coming up on Sounds Like Canada
Florida tells us that chosing where to live is the most important decision in one’s life - more so that your spouse. So, tune into AM 1550 on Monday, and while you’re at it, pick up Florida’s new book. I’ll try and get the MP3 to post on ScaleDown, but never take my technical ability for granted. If you really want to hear it - tune into CBC.
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Good interview. HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM why did I chose Winsor and say not Ottawa? A good question to explore once I finish reading his book.
There is a similiar interview at this page, which I took the paragraph that kind of reflexs Detroit - Windsor at this moment in time below. In this interview he is talking about Cinncinati and Pittsburgh, although you may wonder.
“Another thing the region suffers from is really poor leadership. And I think the reason that is, it really bears the imprint that as the economy is changing to newer things, away from manufacturing, the leadership still reflects that top-down, vertical, 1950s organization mentality so you get these conflicts between old-style democratic political machine and business-led organizations. Those conflicts become very dysfunctional. I think one of the other things is that if older cities could achieve better leadership, leadership that was more in tune with the future.”
What city does that sound like to you?
Full interview here — in print rather than podcast.
http://www.soapboxmedia.com/features/floridainterview.aspx