Participatory Leadership for Asheville’s Common Good

Working Session – Leadership AshevilleOctober 15, 2008

David G. Brown, FacilitatorFormer Chancellor, UNC AshevilleExecutive Director, Asheville Hub

brown@wfu.eduwww.wfu.edu/~brown

Theme: Successful Leaders…

• Are alert to leverage opportunities.

• Are guided by a few basic principles.

• Facilitate and advertise an easy success.

• Nurture broad ownership through

participation.

Outline of Session

• State overall theme.

• Give example of successful leadership.

• Identify YOUR guiding principles.

• Identify upcoming leverage opportunities.

• Hub’s motivation and opportunities.

• In caucus, share your best take-aways and/or

suggestions to the Hub.

EXAMPLE: Wake Forest’sLaptop Computers for All Program

• Leverage: Nation’s love affair with computers.

• Philosophy: Students learn more when students and faculty trust each other. Trust is nurtured by frequent, high quality communication.

• Plan: Provide both students and faculty with the same, powerful communication device.

• Participation: Let students and faculty select the device and how to use it.

• Result: Higher national ranking, etc.

Brown’s First Year Seminar

Before & During Class--Students find URLs & identify criteria--Interactive exercises--Muddiest point--Lecture notes--Email dialogue--Cybershows--One-minute quiz--Computer tip talk--Class polls--Team projects

After Class & Other--Edit drafts by team--Guest editors--Hyperlinks & pictures--Access previous papers--Daily announcements--Team web page--Personal web pages--Exams include computer--Portfolio--Materials Forever

Principles of Successful PresidentsSource: DGB, Leadership Vitality, ACE, 1979

• Have a principle!

• Know the principle!

• Articulate the principle, with consistency, credibility, predictability and integrity!

Principle(s) YOU Believe Should Guide Asheville’s Development Efforts

• Take the time to do it right—carl• Do what is right and just– pete• Consistent thorough and fair– dave• Do what’s best for kids (stakeholders)• Keep the main thing, the main thing• Be ethical in your decisions• Michael– do what you say you will do• Michael- make sure other voices will be heard• Kristia- is it mission driven?

Principle(s) YOU Believe Should Guide Asheville’s Development Efforts

• Seek sustainability • Sharon- empower everyone to share opinion

and come together in collaboration.

Leaders’ Leverage Points(SWOT Analysis)

• Wanda- scaleable sustainable development--- neighorhoods

• Location. Natural resources. • 4 seasons. • 2nd home people a well educated resource• Tom-cultural opportunities are unique. Need lonely

planet guide. • Diverse, weird. Threat is absence of meshing of

ideas. • Accessibility from interstate system• Services we offer• Smart growth

Leaders’ Leverage Points(SWOT Analysis)

• Downtown, education• Creative class. Affordable housing. • Phil- attitude enlightened wellness active living

happiest community• Need more self reflective, realistic• Need to examine whether we are tolerant or not.

Theme Reminder

Successful leaders….

• Are alert to leverage opportunities.

• Are guided by a few basic principles.

• Facilitate and advertise an easy success.

• Nurture broad ownership through participation.

The Asheville Hub’s Principles

• Quality jobs.

• Development – Community and cultural, as well as economic.

• Hot opportunities, comparative advantage.

• Provide a vision, catalyze existing agencies to focus & collaborate, and ultimately, measure success.

• Persuade and enable Asheville to prosper from the New Economy.

Asheville Hub Alliance(Executive Committee in Green Type)

Terry Bellamy, City of Asheville

Janice Brumit, Brumit & Brumit Development Co.

Robin Cape, City of Asheville

Dale Carroll, AdvantageWest

Jack Cecil, Biltmore Farms

Steve Cochran, Sustainability Strategies

Joe Damore, Mission Hospitals

Scott Dedman, Mountain Housing Opportunities

Cliff Dodson, Buncombe County SchoolsJoyce Dorr, Asheville Area Center for the Performing Arts Vernon Dover, Progress Energy (retired)Wanda Greene, Buncombe CountyRandy Hammer, Asheville Citizen-TimesJohn Hunter, Education Research ConsortiumGary Jackson, City of Asheville

Asheville Hub Alliance(Executive Committee in Green Type)

Allen Johnson, Asheville City Schools

Rick Lutovsky, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce

Kim MacQueen, Gold Hill Associates

William Massey, UNC Asheville

Dave McConville, The Elumenati

Cheryl McMurry, Bent Creek Institute

Doug Orr, Black Mountain/Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce

Mack Pearsall, Pearsall Operating Co.

Anne Ponder, UNC Asheville

Nathan Ramsey, Buncombe CountyBob Roberts, First Citizens BankPat Smith, Community Foundation of WNCVirgil Smith, Gannett Co., Inc.Alan Thornburg, North Carolina Board of TransportationBetty Young, AB Tech

David Young, Buncombe County

Lead Agencies for Clusters

• Technology – UNC Asheville, AB Tech

• Rejuvenation – Mission Health System

• Sustainability – TBD

• Creativity – Asheville Area Arts Council

• Land/agriculture – NC Cooperative Extension

• Enterprise/entrepreneurship – Asheville Chamber

• Advanced manufacturing – EDC for

Asheville/Buncombe

Some Hub Achievements So Far

• Summit of climate change leaders, and the production and presentation of Climate Alive film

• $80,000 study for new MS in Climate Change and Society

• EDO Consultant Study

• RENCI and Technology Commercialization Center

• Downtown Tailgate Market

• Significant roles in Handmade in America’s Design Center and attraction of SRC for climate initiative

2008-09 Emphases – Help Wanted!

• Help Centers for Environmental and Climate Interaction attract climate change businesses (technology cluster)

• Make Asheville model city for sustainability, with high concentration of green businesses (sustainability cluster)

• Make Asheville home of businesses serving wellness & healthy lifestyle (rejuvenation cluster)

• Choose measures of economic, social, cultural and community goals.

Caucus Comments

• Insure that principle takes predence• Leverage points back to Junior League• Mary- how can my organization contribute to the

measures we need• Wind is at our back• New media is an important opp in AVL

Recommended Take Away

• Two most meaningful Caucus comments

• Remember LPPP!

Leverage + Principle + Plan + Participation