Business leadership voiced its support for the Talent Dividend in a big way this week with stops in Tulsa and Tampa Bay. Both cities’ business communities are taking the lead to coordinate and promote the achievement of the Talent Dividend.  That’s because they understand that talent in their cities is a big win for the business community. As a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times put it, “See business leaders asked to help fix Florida’s complex educational problems. Run, executives. Run away. Instead, ask businesses this: If Tampa Bay saw an extra $3.1 billion in higher pay added to the economy every year by raising the number of people with four-year degrees by 1 percentage point — from 25.3 percent to 26.3 percent — would they help? See businesses say yes.”

Read the full piece at http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article1049425.ece

On Saturday, November 21, the Tampa Independent Business Alliance (TIBA) marks America Unchained! by asking the community to “unchain” by doing all shopping, dining out, and other business only with locally-owned independents, adding millions of dollars to the local economy.

“On an average November day last year, over $44 million dollars entered the Hillsborough County economy, and over $28 million in Pinellas. If all those transactions had been exclusively with locally-owned independent businesses for just one day, we would have kept over $23 million dollars more in the local economy than if spent at national chains,” says Carla Jimenez, co-owner of Inkwood Books and Board member of TIBA and AMIBA. “America Unchained helps everyone quantify the impact of personal spending choices. If you’re spending less these days – and who isn’t? – we offer a way to make it count more.”

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Executives have markedly changed their leadership styles in the past year—but not their views on which ones will help companies most in the long term. Many of the most needed leadership styles, now and in the future, are those used more frequently by women than by men. Read the results at>>

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Organization/Talent/Leadership_through_the_crisis_and_after_McKinsey_Global_Survey_results_2457