The Regional "Prosperity League"

What is watched gets done; what is measured gets done better.

    Have you a wondered how it is that we have developed such detailed score keeping systems for all kinds of sports, but we have hardly any idea how to relate invidual and organizational performance to prosperity?

    For example, during the professional baseball season we are measuring and tracking all kinds of individual results, team results and even how the league as a whole is doing with respect to attendance and revenues.

    Does that mean that prosperity is less important? Or, does it mean that we don't have a good measurement system and/or know who is reponsible and accountable?

The Prosperity Score Keeping System

    To be effective in implementing a successful economic development strategy based on the Rapid Business Growth Initiative model it is critical to maintain a public online regional prosperity score keeping system. Such a system should make it possible for any resident of an area to find out on a current basis what and how individuals, organizations and communities are doing with respect to prosperity.

    Who are the responsible players and how are they performing? What are the different "teams" doing and how are they performing?

    Business Growth Partners will assist its clients in developing and executing a well-defined measurement system that will help program participants and the public keep track of results.

    In many areas certain relevant results are already being measured, such as jobs, income, business activity and other demographic and economic statistics. What is not being measured as well is the individual and organizational performance that create income, jobs, etc. The Forum for Growth Action Plan is a start toward identifying what can be done to increase prosperity, who is responsible, and what will get done when.

Regional Prosperity Is a Cooperative Game

    One very good thing about prosperity is that it is a cooperative game, which means that we can all benefit from working together. Prosperity is also a "non-zero sum" game. That means that by increasing the size of one person's pie, we don't have to decrease the size of somobody else's pie.