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Praise for Growing Jobs

Thomas Tuttle has captured how local elected officials are combining strategic and innovative decision making with professional local government management and dynamic not-for-profit partners for policy implementation. This implementation is disrupting and improving the status quo, leading to a more hopeful, resilient, and equitable future for communities and the businesses and individuals that call them home. Robust community engagement ensures that the personal values of citizens are aligned with the economic development strategies, accelerating the rate of growth and creating an environment that fosters investment in financial and human capital.

Michael Van Milligen, City Manager, Dubuque, Iowa

Creating quality jobs and filling them with a qualified workforce has become the challenge of our time because traditional strategies to promote economic growth have proven to be a zero-sum game at best. In this enlightening book, Tom Tuttle offers an engaging primer on the newest and best thinking for job creation at both local and state levels. It is a must read for policy makers, economic development professionals, and all who care about Americas economic future.

William E. Kirwan, Chancellor Emeritus, University of Maryland System

It is refreshing to see someone work so hard to create a holistic view of what community and economic development is all about. Never has it been more important to realize that successful economic development is nonpartisan and requires a powerful publicprivate partnership. Above all, what Dr. Tuttle has done is to prove once again that this work is complicated and that it is a team sport.

J. Mac Holladay, CCE, PCED, LM, HLM, CEO, Market Street Services

Growing Jobs is a must read for local leaders across the country seeking to create good jobs and sustainable communities. Dr. Tuttle, a widely acclaimed expert on quality and productivity, draws upon decades of experience working with business, education, and government leaders and case studies of Austin, Texas, and Dubuque, Iowa, in this how-to guide, demonstrating that community values and engagement, along with education and business retention, are key strategies for successful, long-term, and sustainable economic development.

Charles A. Stek, President and CEO, Environmental Stewardship Strategies

In Growing Jobs: Transforming the Way We Approach Economic Development, Thomas Tuttle accurately assesses how traditional economic development approaches are no longer working. Tuttles work will help economic development practitioners in developing plans and practices that leverage the significance of place and talent in driving local and regional economies.

Jim Damicis, Senior Vice President, Camoin Associates

Tom Tuttle approaches the topic of job creation and economic development from the experience that comes from many decades as a professor, consultant, student, and Guru of productivity and quality improvement. His optimal mix of intellectual and practical real-world observations brings together, in this book, a very realistic account of the transformation of economic development and job creation approaches to succeed in todays global competition. The recommendations are understandable, implementable, and sustainable and should yield positive results for both the economic and social progress of municipalities, states, regions, and nations.

Aris Melissaratos, Dean, School of Business and Leadership, Stevenson University

Tom Tuttle has opened the door to the next evolution of local economic development based on comprehensive community transformation. His ability to identify the secret sauce of building alliances, deep collaboration, and a shift to entrepreneurial ecosystems reflects his creative insight into a different kind of future that is emerging.

Rick Smyre, President, Center for Communities of the Future

Thomas Tuttle makes compelling arguments for why a transformation is required worldwide concerning existing economic development practices. There are not enough jobs of any kind for those seeking employment, and there is a growing mismatch between new job skill requirements and the qualifications of those seeking employment. In Growing Jobs, Tuttle provides compelling and useful examples of ways to consider and implement creative and innovative economic development frameworks.

Dr. David V. Gibson, Associate Director, IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Growing good jobs that satisfy community aspirations is the fundamental challenge facing local and state government leadership. Growing Jobs provides a national perspective on economic development practices with an in-depth look at two success storiesAustin, Texas, and Dubuque, Iowa. Growing Jobs provides transformational context and a values-driven pathway to individual and community innovation and productivity.

Robert L. Hannon, President, Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation

Tom Tuttles new book is a thought-provoking series of examples and findings on some of the most successful community and economic development initiatives from different regions of the country. It highlights the key ingredients of success by showcasing these best in class examples. The keys include leadership, vision, best management practices, and a set of core community values that tend to drive the transformation to a highly effective system for community building and job growth.

Wayne A. Mills, Past Chairman of the Governors Workforce Investment Board for Maryland and Past Chair of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Maryland

Growing Jobs

Transforming the Way We Approach
Economic Development

Thomas C. Tuttle

Foreword by Jean-Claude Lauzon

Copyright 2016 by Thomas C. Tuttle

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tuttle, Thomas C., author.

Title: Growing jobs : transforming the way we approach economic development / Thomas Clayton Tuttle; foreword by Jean-Claude Lauzon.

Description: Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016005696 (print) | LCCN 2016021673 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440837227 (hardback) | ISBN 9781440837234 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Manpower policy, RuralUnited States. | Job creationUnited States. | Rural industriesGovernment policyUnited States.

Classification: LCC HD5724 .T88 2016 (print) | LCC HD5724 (ebook) | DDC 338.9dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016005696

ISBN: 9781440837227

EISBN: 9781440837234

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