Best-Performing Cities 2010: The 2011 top 10 performers (with 2010 rankings) of the 200 largest metros:
Leaders in this year's index, which ranks U.S. metros based on their ability to create and sustain jobs, are cities that most benefited from renewed investment in business equipment; have diversified technology bases, which also drive growth in business and professional services; are exposed to America's booming energy sector; and are home to a large military presence. (study done by the Milken Institute www.milkeninstitute.org )
1. San Antonio, TX (14)
2. El Paso, TX (9)
3. Fort Collins- Loveland, CO (50)
4. Austin-Round Rock, TX (2)
5. Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX (1)
6. Salt Lake City, UT (49)
7. Anchorage, AK (8)
8. Huntsville, AL (3)
9. Provo-Orem, UT (25)
10. Kennewick-Richland-Pasco WA (5)
The Best Performing Cities index includes both long-term (five years) and short-term (one year) measurements of employment and salary growth. There are also four measurements of technology output growth, which are included because of technology's crucial role in creating good jobs and driving regional economies.
The index ranks 379 metropolitan areas, grouped into large (population of more than 200,000) and small (population of less than 200,000) metros.
Why is not Silicon Valley among the top ten “best places to work” in the USA? I suspect two elements: a new praxis (developing a good business habits) and a new entrepreneurism.
1. Since the sixties by the Silicon Valley (when I came) had one business praxis. The first praxis was that the business end goal, or intention, was revealed at the beginning. This praxis one was “always starting with the end.” To do things, every day, that moves you for your objective. The first praxis could describe a simple picture.
For example in the first praxis, the famous Mona Lisa is seen as her “smile.” We see Mona Lisa’s smile, the whole background basic is apparently before Mona Lisa … only the picture is her smile. The first praxis has a ethical supplication, to always the fulfillment with the end the starting end point … not the second praxis.
On 9-11-2001, Silicon Valley started the second praxis, integrating with the first praxis. (The first praxis is alive today.) The second praxis has the constant awareness, what happening to changes which were to not work on the first praxis. The second praxis being covert acting to anticipate the un-expectable that would not work with the one praxis. The first praxis could not fill the economic which followed the 9-11.
The second praxis is the definition, the “overview” picture. The frame surround is the completion of the picture. Second praxis is not a simple picture like Mona Lisa, but an complicated canvas with every inch is incorporated, even the frame.
I chose the “Forest The Eyes” to understand the second praxis. Bev Doolittle is an artist of the camouflage. Her paintings, inherent the effective, has a double meaning. (http://www.bevdoolittle.nt)
Look at the picture and what is the first thing to see?
“Forest The Eyes” is drawing into a mountain man with two horse. One horse is riding, and a horse is a pack, in the middle center of the picture. When you first view is the man and two horses (like Mona Lisa’s smile) using the first praxis. “Forest The Eyes” has the obvious … at first seeing.
As you view Bev’s picture, you will find the faces on the forest, which an addition to the rider and horses. The at least twenty human faces hiding about the trees, rocks, and inside the snow. (If you use a small video phone, copy you look with a standard computer screen, http://www.symbiosis4u.us/images/ForestHasEyes.jpg )
Bev painting is not a picture of a mountain man with two horses. This painting is an covert, foreshowed, a new look at seeing on the forest. The picture is a example of the second praxis.
Silicon Valley to will have to learn second praxis, and also the new entrepreneurism, to become by the “ten of America’s cities.”
2. The Silicon Valley is always has been the entrepreneur. The market place is … not the entrepreneur of the 1960’s … a new entrepreneurism in the 21st century. The new entrepreneurism is work more like a family, not job people wanted to have to make a paycheck. The new entrepreneurism is another employee, not a person with a number or job. Richard Branson (including Virgin Air and about 400 over business) is the entrepreneur as paramount of the new entrepreneurism.
Branson watch three questions for the “Advice to New Entrepreneur” (a 4 minute video).
1. What is a business … not it is money.
2. How does Branson running for the 400 companies.
3. If Branson died, if he died the companies would also?
http://www.symbiosis4u.us/FLV/Branson.htm
Next have listen (40 minutes) to Branson, when three Piranha entrepreneurs asks difficult questions. (More is too long listen for a email, so I left a link which the MP3 will down load for your iPod, or CD to listen while at the car.) http://www.symbiosis4u.us/FLV/Branson.htm
Branson’s answers may be a prologue of the second praxis, and in the new 21st business … of the second decade of the second millennium.
In years the Silicon Valley, we can linked against to the “Ten Cities Of The USA,” … when we have learned at the last second praxis and entrepreneurism.
Be happy, healthy, wealthy, and wise,
Tom Van Drielen
Symbiosis Enterprises
Box 18907
San Jose, Ca. 95118
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