Compass June 2008: What is a Micropolis? Why Should You Care? - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 May 08
  

  Wisely

  "The key business challenge in the first decades of the 21st century is ready access to this kind of intellectual capital. There simply isn't enough human talent - especially knowledge workers - to meet the needs of growing business enterprises."

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  • Lets break this idea down a bit. Micropolises are newly-minted geographic areas of distinction that are becoming centers of political power, economic innovation, and talent location. People who live in Micropolitan areas (and those attracted to them) have no interest in commuting into large cities. So, if you as a business depend on talent to be competitive, you had better figure out where these areas are and go there - or at least learn to operate virtually drawing on the talent that's located there.
  • these self-contained "micropolises" (as compared to metropolises, which were the magnet for talent during the industrial era) are the new frontier. To borrow an old phrase, business leaders understand that, when attracting human capital today, "Mohammed must now go to the mountain."
  • The key business challenge in the first decades of the 21st century is ready access to this kind of intellectual capital. There simply isn't enough human talent - especially knowledge workers - to meet the needs of growing business enterprises.

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