ceos for cities

CEOS for CITIES

Why We ExistWho We AreWhat Values Drive UsWhat We DoHow We Do ItWhere We’re Going

So for those of you who may be concerned…….

I’ll begin with the conclusion.

The Future Belongs to thoseCities Who Can:

See itPlan itDesign it Execute itReinvent it

5 Ways CEOs for Citieshelps Cities SeePlan Design Execute Reinvent Their Future

We help your city….• Frame your opportunities and

challenges• Act in ways that demonstrate

measurable progress• Connect and Engage with the

smartest people and smartest ideas in the most ways in the most places

• Cross sectors, borders, levels, disciplines, and generations

• Manage to the hidden curves and edges that can’t be seen but must be heard –to think and act like a startup

CEOS for CITIES

Why We Exist

Want to Change the World?Start with your City.

Want to Change Your City?

Want to Change Your City?Start with your Vision of your Future.

The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.”

DANIEL GILBERT, “STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS”

Someday I’ll have a family and a start-up of my own…

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THE PARADIGM HAS SHIFTED.

But how can you imagine a future when the world is coming at you at lightning speed?

THE PARADIGM HAS SHIFTED.

But how can you imagine a future when the world is coming at you at lightning speed?

We’re adding 1 billion people every 12 years

Think about all the information created from the dawn of civilization up until 2003

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003”

ERIC SCHMIDTEXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, GOOGLE

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Last Week

Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype for most people was a typo.”TOM FRIEDMAN AUTHOR, “THAT USED TO BE US”

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JUST SIX YEARS AGO…

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$600 million

2009

Mobile Sales Growth on Ebay

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$5 billion2011

100%

Percentage Ebay Expects mobile sales to grow in

the next few years

Number of mobile apps available

October 2008

8,000

Today2012

ONEmillio

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WE SEND OVER8 BILLIONTEXT MESSAGES PER DAY

42%JESSICA

IF FACEBOOK WERE A SEPARATE COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE 3RD LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

Why didn’t Myspace create Facebook?

2004

Myspace vs. Facebook

Facebook

unique visitors

Myspace

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2006

10

2012

800

Facebook Users (in millions)

Compare Facebook growthfrom 2006 to 2012

Why didn’t Palm Pilot invent the iPhone?

Why didn’t Blockbuster create Netflix?

Think Like a Startup

Manage to the Hidden Curves and Edges

Not Seen but Anticipated

ESTABLISH A CONTINUOUS

PRESERVATION-DESTRUCTION-CREATION CYCLE

Manage the Present

Selectively Destroy the

Past

Create the Future

What I want to do, hasn’t been invented yet…”JASON

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THE BIGGEST DRIVER OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH?

Cities.

WE HUDDLE

65GLOBAL URBAN POPULATION GROWTH.

Million Annually

7New Chicagos Each Year

75%

80%INCUBATORS OF INNOVATION

of nation’s GDP of world’s GDP

STOP WAITING FORWASHINGTON...

… we should be looking more to our backyards and communities… than to Washington…”ADAM SEGALADVANTAGE: HOW AMERICAN INNOVATION CAN OVERCOME THE ASIAN CHALLENGE

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CHANGE BY US

Change by Us helps you share ideas, start projects, connect with resources, and make your community better.

WE ENGAGE

The biggestdriver in cities?

GreatLeaders.

The greatest natural power source of economic growth are a city’s tribal leaders...”JIM CLIFTON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF GALLUP, AUTHOR OF “THE COMING JOBS WAR”

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NOT JUST ANY LEADERS

CONNECTED, CROSS-SECTOR,CROSS-BORDER, CROSS-LEVEL, CROSS-GENERATIONLEADERS

CEOS for CITIES

Who We Are

WHAT IS CEOS FOR CITIES?

CEOs for Cities is a global learning community and partnership network of civic CEOs and urban leaders that connects cross-sector, cross-generational urban leaders to each other and to smart ideas and practices in the four areas most vital to city success:

Connectedness Innovation Talent Your Distinctive Assets

WE CROSS SECTORS,

BORDERS, LEVELS,

DISCIPLINES, AND

GENERATIONS.

What’s a CEO?

We are Civic CEOs

We honor and welcome leadershipwhere it happensregardless of rank or sector

The Inclusive ‘E’ in CEO:

ExecutiveEducationEconomicExperienceExplorationEntrepreneurial

CEOS for CITIES

What Values Drive Us

OUR OVERRIDING VALUE…….HUMILITY

There’s always something more to learn from someone else, somewhere else.

NO CITY LACKS TALENT, BUT TALENT IS NOT ENOUGH

MUST BE

CROSS-SECTORCROSS-GENERATIONCROSS-BORDERCROSS-CONNECTEDCROSS-ENGAGED

Our ability to connect with each other is the defining characteristic of our species… knowledge {is} more valuable than ever and that has increased the value of learning from people in other cities.”

ED GLAESER, HARVARD PROFESSORTRIUMPH OF THE CITY

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CEOS for CITIES

What We Do

We help you FACE your City Frame

ActConnectEngage

Frame: City VitalsAct: City Dividends

Connect: Our NetworkEngage : City Clusters

Framing Matters

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” Wayne Dyer

OUR RESEARCH PORTFOLIO.

FOUR LETTERS THAT

MAKE UP “CITY”

SPELL GENETIC CODE OF

URBAN SUCCESS

Our framework for measuring city success is our City Vitals

THE FRAMEWORK FOR CITY LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW ECONOMY

4Lessons

CONNECTEDNESSBUILD A CULTURE OF CONNECTEDNESS

Leaders are not heroic decision- makers.

They are architects of intersections.

Lesson 1

LIFE AT THE INTERSECTION

Our ability to connect with each other is the defining characteristic of our species… knowledge {is} more valuable than ever and that has increased the value of learning from people in other cities.”

ED GLAESER, HARVARD PROFESSORTRIUMPH OF THE CITY

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VotingCommunity InvolvementEconomic IntegrationTransit UseInternational StudentsForeign TravelInternet Connectivity

City Vitals:   CONNECTED

INNOVATIONBUILD A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

But if you can’t imagine it, you can’t create it.

Lesson 2

I just learned how to skate where the puck was going, not where it was.”

WAYNE GRETSKY

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PatentsVenture CapitalSelf-employmentSmall Businesses

City Vitals:  INNOVATIVE

TALENTBUILD A CULTURE OF TALENT

When you think about the flow of capital, think

about mining the most valuable capital on earth-

human capital.

Lesson 3

College AttainmentCreative ProfessionalsYoung and RestlessTraded Sector TalentInternational Talent

City Vitals:   TALENT

YOUR DISTINCTIVE ASSETSBUILD A CULTURE OF INVESTMENT IN

YOUR DISTINCTIVE ASSETS

Focus on what’s right.

Strategy is about difference.

Lesson 4

Our action agenda is our City Dividends

The single most important motivator and catalyst for positive action is making progress and showing forward momentum in meaningful work.

Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile

The Pr

THE PROGRESS PRINCIPLE

$124 billion $28.6 billion $13.1 billion

NATIONAL CITY DIVIDENDS

TALENT DIVIDEND

$124

BILLION

58%

CEOS for CITIES

How We Do It

This is not just about moving forward. It is about connecting outward and moving forward.

We connect and engage through our learning community and partnership network.

Partners in over 60 North American Cities.

CONSTANT re:thinking

Individuals

Businesses / Higher Education / Organizations

City Clusters

OUR ORGANIZATIONAL PLATFORM

HOW WE ENGAGE.

Individuals, Businesses, Organizationsand City Clusters

Teams of cross-sector, cross-generational leaders in each city in our learning community and partnership network.

CITY CLUSTERS

Participate as a team in our convenings and access our exclusive knowledge base and network.

CITY CLUSTERS

• The City Cluster is not another new organization in your city with regular meetings you must attend.

• It is not a business roundtable made up exclusively of private sector CEOs.

• It is not a group of outside experts who think that they know what's best for your city.

WHAT THE CITY CLUSTER IS NOT

• The City Cluster is a team of cross-sector, cross-generational civic CEOs and urban leaders committed to participating in a global learning community and partnership network.

• No city lacks talent; but most cities lack a structure and process for harnessing cross-sector talent, and sharing smart ideas not only across sectors, but across borders, levels, and generations.

• We are extremely inclusive. City clusters allow individuals and organizations who could not otherwise afford to participate, to join the CEOs for Cities network.

WHAT THE CITY CLUSTER IS

•Cincinnati

•Detroit

•Grand Rapids

• Indianapolis

•Memphis

•Miami

•Milwaukee

•Richmond

•San Jose

•And many more in progress

CEOS for CITIES

Where We’re Going

DEEPER MEMBER -DRIVEN RESEARCH PORTFOLIO.

Our action agenda Future City Dividends

Our action agenda Future Dividend Prize Competitions

Many More City Clustersand Stronger Value Proposition for our City Clusters

CITY CLUSTERS

Regional MeetingsCity FellowsCity Dream TeamsCity Missions

CITY CLUSTERS

Connect and engage through our GLOBAL learning community and partnership network.

WE WILL ENGAGE GLOBALLY

Tear down walls, build bridges, and light fires.”STEVE JOBS

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SERENITY PRAYER FOR CITIES

God, grant my city the humility to accept that there’s always something more to learn from someone else, somewhere else;

The speed to keep up with a world that’s moving at lightning speed;

The flexibility to adapt and change

as we learn;

And the wisdom to join CEOs for Cities.