Future Here Now: Books and books!
Update
Hey all. I’ve got a couple of updates for you, and then back to the Signals and Selections tomorrow.
Starting this week, you will be seeing promotions for my book Everybody Innovates Here across your assorted social media channels. I published this book in late 2019… great timing, I know. So this one is getting the love that it should have gotten before The Panini got in the way.
I’m really excited to more properly share this book, because it addresses one of the crucial underlying issues that we’re not talking enough about:
**We need a whole lot more innovation and entrepreneurship, across virtually every sector and across the world, and
**The systems we’ve put in place to do the job aren’t doing good enough. And they are especially failing the innovators and entrepreneurs we need the most.
This book is for anyone who touches innovation, small business or entrepreneurship, whether you’re in a university or a scrappy neighborhood business district. And with all of the tumult on the national level, I think the timing couldn’t be better. No matter what we do, we’re going to have to come up with new solutions… fast. This book will help you figure out why you’re not getting the results you envisioned, and how to unlock your community’s overlooked innovation and entrepreneurship potential.
This book may make all the difference for your community — and a talk or workshop could give your community or organization a whole new opportunity to thrive in volatile times! Interested? I’m booking for fall — just send me a note.
I’ve got two more books approaching the end of the pipeline! First is Tell Ask Discuss Decide, which gives us a more healthy and effective strategy for public engagement (online and off). Great for planners, business district managers, chambers of commerce, and anyone who has to collaborate with the public — and probably dreads it. You won’t after this. We’re finishing up edits right now. The other one, Don’t Screw Up Your Program, got pushed aside due to some urgency around the other two, but like the kid that you love but gets overlooked for the one who is All About The Drama, it’s about time for this one to get its time in spotlight. Both of these books, plus workshops, talks and supplmental materials, will be ready by this fall. So don’t delay — the calendar fills up fast. Let’s talk.
Finally, don’t forget that the Wise Economy Workshop does a whole range of consulting, advising and consensus-building, ranging from strategic planning to transparent and non-scammy economic impact analysis. And starting next week, we’re rolling out our newest service — video and social media production that tells your story to the people you want to hear it. Stay tuned!
Have a great week, and if you’re in the eastern U.S., try not to swallow a cicada the next time you go outside. Unless you’re my neighbor’s dog… then have at it. All yours.
By the way, the title of this newsletter issue is the same as one of my favorite bookstores anywhere, Books & Books in Key West, Florida. Books & Books was established by none other than Judy Blume, the young adult fiction icon who got kids of my generation and others through childhood and puberty. Judy still works at Books & Books, and I had a chance to say thank you to her for her books and for the store in February. Still in awe.
As you might imagine, given her involvement, Book & Books gives center stage to publications that are being blacklisted or removed from libraries. And they’re a nonprofit. Check them out and buy something powerful at