Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.
At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.
Hard work is about getting the job done by any means necessary. Smart work is about getting the job done by the least means necessary. In both cases, the same job gets done. Both are effective. But the latter is more efficient than the former.
Whenever expenses become greater than income, it is inevitable that liabilities will become greater than assets.
Reliable tax revenue is vital to the fiscal wellbeing of municipalities.
Risk is amplified if the business doesn’t have clear title to its assets.
Small Businesses bring cities to life.
Leadership is an important part of ESG. Both the S and the G in ESG have a strong correlation to leadership.
Capitalism incentivizes its participants to utilize capital; whereas permaculture economics incentivizes participants to steward capital. Capitalism emphasizes production and consumption. Permaculture Economics emphasizes holistic ROI and productivity.
From the perspective of society as a whole, there is no fixed or objective need aside from those broad categories required for survival. Rarely, if ever, is there a fixed quantity or definite quality demanded. This is why the needs of individuals are best met by other individuals according to supply, demand, and the price mechanism. And this is why most of the needs of individuals cannot be met only by central government.
When planning projects and issuing revenue bonds, cities should assess the projects total impact to the urban ecosystem.
To survive in this century, every company must be on a continual journey of transformation.
There is beauty in being a good employee. Most people can achieve more greatness as an employee than they ever could as an entrepreneur.
It is a matter of economic wellbeing that most families be formed as mother, father, and children in a single-family household.
Municipalities that foster thriving business ecosystems can issue more investable bonds.
Entrepreneurship is about service, not self.
Immigration is a necessary and good thing for our great nation. But it must be orderly and structured. It must be liberally embraced, yet conservatively managed.
How is transformation built into your company’s corporate structure? This is an important question to answer if you want the company to remain relevant throughout market changes.
When considering the acquisition of new sources of revenue, the business must account for the costs that must be incurred prior to the acquisition, and the costs associated with the maintenance of that source of revenue.
Everything matters. Let’s treat the so called little things with importance just as we do the so called big things. Because the little things have a way of being connected and interdependent in such a way as to often be just as big as the big things.