Investment in the arts and our own creativity can help navigate the road back to prosperity, renowned economist Richard Florida told attendees of the inaugural Arts Exposed conference at Seneca College in Markham.
adminApril 4, 2011
Five recent Big Think Books come from brand name authors, each with major capacity to produce and distribute.
This column provides a glimpse of key themes in each of these books including Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset and some analysis of the controversial issues on which the authors agree and disagree.
adminMarch 28, 2011
Fast Company continues its examination of the business book The Rise of the Creative Class with an interview of author Richard Florida.
adminMarch 25, 2011
Jodi Schwan of the Sioux Falls Business Journal interviews Richard Florida. Florida mentions Sioux Falls in his new book, The Great Reset, as a community that might be vulnerable in the financial services sector.
adminMarch 23, 2011
Economic forces, regulatory pressure and the community’s desire for higher-paying jobs have combined to throw the future of the financial services sector into uncertainty. For financial services to thrive in Sioux Falls, a generation’s worth of thinking has to change, according to industry and community leaders.
adminMarch 23, 2011
Fast Company continues its Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Rise of the Creative Class (2003) by Richard Florida
adminMarch 22, 2011
Studio, Italy’s new culture and arts magazine interviews Richard Florida for its first first issue about Europe and creativity The interview focuses both on his work as an advisor to the UK government and on his theory of the “creative sector as a growth engine” for as much as it applies to Europe.
adminMarch 22, 2011
El Paso’s Creative Cities Leadership Project officially named the New Texico Creative Cities Leadership Project, was started in August 2006 in conjunction with creative class guru Richard Florida.
adminMarch 7, 2011
Richard Florida on the economic crisis and its effects on work and the workplace.
adminFebruary 28, 2011