Bay Area as “Future Center”

If bad news were flames, we’d all agree that with the recent economic news we’ve been going through a fire season—the worst kind of fire season. Most of us are in the process of scrambling to respond. Can our organizations adapt to survive? How will we survive? One thing I know from 30 years of organizational consulting is that crisis is truly opportunity. Until people have to change they don’t. Well we all have to now, and we will. The question is to what and how?

As our leadership team addressed these questions in a recent 2009 planning retreat, we realized the Bay Area is uniquely equipped to meet the challenge head-on and The Grove’s role at its heart in these times became more clear.

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