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Alberta Economy 2012: A Game of Skill and Chance Todd Hirsch Senior Economist Spring 2012
Alberta’s game plan in 2012? Moderate economic growth Oil is the wild card China (not US) most critical Should lead provinces
The Boiling Frog Dilemma Saving Canada from Economic Decline
Todd Hirsch Robert Roach 2012
Creativity
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’ - Hugh MacLeod, “Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity.”
The “OE”
The “OE” “The surest way to spark imagination is to confront the perceptual system with people, places and things it hasn’t seen before.” Gregory Berns
Move up the Value Chain
Collaboration A person can have the greatest idea in the world. But if that person can’t convince enough other people, it doesn’t matter.” Gregory Berns
Juan Ponce de León searched for the Fountain of Youth…
“We’ve got enough youth. What we need is a Fountain of Smart!”
www.atb.com www.toddhirsch.com Todd Hirsch (ABeconomist)
Alberta’s game plan in 2012? Moderate economic growth Oil is the wild card China (not US) most critical Should lead provinces
The Boiling Frog Dilemma Saving Canada from Economic Decline
Todd Hirsch Robert Roach 2012
Creativity
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.’ - Hugh MacLeod, “Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity.”
The “OE”
The “OE” “The surest way to spark imagination is to confront the perceptual system with people, places and things it hasn’t seen before.” Gregory Berns
Move up the Value Chain
Collaboration A person can have the greatest idea in the world. But if that person can’t convince enough other people, it doesn’t matter.” Gregory Berns
Juan Ponce de León searched for the Fountain of Youth…
“We’ve got enough youth. What we need is a Fountain of Smart!”
www.atb.com www.toddhirsch.com Todd Hirsch (ABeconomist)
