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Apr 19, 20224 min read

Passing the Baton

By RDG Senior Counsel Rob Radcliff “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” -Henry Ford At...

Oct 28, 20212 min read

Welcome to the 2021 IEDC Annual Conference

By: RDG Principal Lindsay Bensko Bright lights, big music city, welcome to Nashville! Home to the 2021 IEDC Annual Conference, and it did...

Oct 2, 20172 min read

Thoughts on IEDC’s 2017 Annual Conference

I’m impressed! That is how I left feeling about Toronto after a very successful IEDC Annual Conference a few weeks ago. A city of over...

Feb 20, 20173 min read

Takeaways from the 2017 IEDC Leadership Summit

2017 IEDC LEADERSHIP SUMMIT TAKEAWAYS I always enjoy the late January IEDC Leadership Conference — shorter timespan, more relaxed, nice...

Aug 4, 20164 min read

The Silly Season is Upon Us…Again

Thanks to Ian Scott at ACCE, I recently read an article whose premise was hauntingly familiar: see Corporations and Politics: Shunning...

Jan 1, 20162 min read

Does The Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?

I read an article in our local paper a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. It chronicled the dramatic disparity in relative...