from the windy city to the ready city, a socioeconomic pivot for chicago

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Chicago. The Ready City. John R. Dallas, Jr. Chief Alignment Officer Hillview Partners Network

New Venture Formation Annaleena Parhankangas, Ph.D. Tuesday 31 March 2015

Since 2005 leading Hillview, a network of independent subject matter experts in fields for strategic alignment

Since 1974 President of five prior technology-based B2B and B2C nationwide service companies:

Chicago Title Credit Services, Inc., Chicago Consumer and commercial credit data services

CreditComm Services LLC, Fairfax, Virginia (D.C. area) Consumer credit data services and marketing

Market Access Resources Corp., New York and Springfield, Virginia Consumer credit data services and marketing

Group Concepts Capital Corp., New York Consumer credit data services and marketing

ETX Corporation, New York Electronic publishing and editorial services

Volunteer leadership in economic development, entrepreneurship, education, arts, and faith communities

Duquesne University and Columbia University, majored in journalism and mass communications

John R. Dallas, Jr. Founder and Chief Alignment Officer (CAO) Hillview Partners Network LLC

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How Entrepreneurial

Energy Transforms into

Socioeconomic Energy

Entrepreneurial Energetics


Entrepreneurial energy, what is “it?” What ignites it?

Who and what adds to it?

Who and what drains, stalls or destroys it — why? Who and what transforms it?

Even against resistance, how do high-performing entrepreneurs get and generate so much of it?

Where does it come from?

Where would the world be without it?

Entrepreneurial Energetics ℠

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Generation-agnostic entrepreneurs are collaborating to develop cool things that matter.

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Post-Modern Skateboard that Ditches the Board

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Voice recognition technology matters and it’s cool. Development started 50+ years ago!

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New methods for 3-D printing are rising out of the ooze! This is cool and it could matter!

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Things “old,” that are hand-made and top-quality, CAN be “new,” cool — and should matter.

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New York City Cider bar (with 144 varieties) is both cool and matters — at least to some.

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Entrepreneurs are Founders, Co-Founders or Employees with Entrepreneurial Aptitude

Find the gap and fill it with a new idea, method, product, service or other alternative.

“For entrepreneurs, hope is reductive; an ‘ask.’ Unwavering confidence in what’s ahead trumps hoping for it.”

—John R. Dallas, Jr.

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Chicago. The Ready City. John R. Dallas, Jr. Chief Alignment Officer Hillview Partners Network

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“Listen for Chicago’s gaps to fill.”

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Viewing Global Success for Greater Chicago Metroplex


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What you see is what you get. Aim for clear views.

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Viewing Chicago from a distance, from just-right hill-height . . .


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http://youtu.be/ZjiB_MBBNY4

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20 Date on Cover 16 October 2000 Consider smoldering

socioeconomic embers of the Chicago Fire of 1871 Midwest Values vs. Midwest Value Separateness from vs. Connection with East Third of U.S. vs. Middle of Country Only 790.4 driving miles between Willis Tower and NYC’s World Trade Center (an 11-hour drive) We need to stop insulating and isolating ourselves.

Illinois generates well under 2% of the nation’s venture capital. Investment dollars go toward safety of blue-chip stocks and bonds. We’re not known to invest in ourselves — i.e., not enough interest in, or cash investment for supporting, local entrepreneurs.

Today Chicago has 40,000+ Federal employees and 40,000+ tech start-up employees. Both numbers are climbing.

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“Well, not yet. But after a century of epic mismanagement, a sports empire is in bloom.” 6-12 April 2015


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“In Chicago’s small startup subculture . . .” 5 January 2015 Excellent profile starts on page 20 for Chicago’s Emerson Spartz.


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Chicago. The “Windy” City? Amarillo, Texas is the windiest city in the U.S., and Chicago is NOT significantly windier than any other U.S. city. (Why a negative nickname?)


Reputation for Bloviating — the Windiness of Our: Superiority Separateness Self-sufficiency Perilous pride Half-truths “Better than NYC, London, the World...”

Reputation for Blindness to City’s Reality: Politics is #1 Government #2 Unions #3 Business 4th? Corruption Provincial Unforgiving, etc.


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Saying, “Chicago is the world’s greatest city” separates us from the world. Claiming, “Chicago is ONE of the world’s greatest cities” connects us with the world.


Impact on buyers within earshot from New York, London, Dubai, Paris, San Francisco . . .

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Chicago’s inaccurate claims of uniqueness, superiority, specialness, breakthroughs, accomplishments etc. shatter trust and scuttle best efforts to attract attention and build credibility and socioeconomic strength.

Nautical Hurricane Warning


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Chicago. The Ready City.

Chicago. The Windy City.


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For decades we know we are living with the dark-cloud legacy of corruption over our heads; from Al Capone’s celebrated crimes to incarcerated former governors. How can we expect the world to believe our claim to have unimpeachable Midwest Values?

ABC News: “Little League strips Chicago of U.S. title for using ineligible players.” —11 February 2015

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For the world looking-in, where are clear signs of our so-called Midwest Values, work ethic, capitalistic-mindedness, or even U.S. national connectedness? What views, news and clues can serious-minded analysts use for compelling socioeconomic assessment? Are we seen as hyper-local politics-obsessed? Business-focused?


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Chicago metro area is the world's 5th largest economy, measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) — nearly three times the economy of the San Francisco metro area.

Even with this amount of Chicago-generated wealth, San Francisco's venture capital investment is thirty times (30X) larger. Chicago is not as ready to invest in new ventures.

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A recent report from Accenture concludes Illinois has the sixth-largest high-tech economy in the United States. Newly elected Governor Bruce Rauner is on-record for being dissatisfied with this low ranking.

(13 February 2015)


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This stealth campaign’s bold creators and/or sponsors are still incognito; yet unidentified:


Errors of Making the World about Chicago Instead of Making Chicago about the World

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The bid’s fate was sealed at this sad juncture.

Yes, Aon Building, Hancock Center and Willis Tower are shown burning in flames of the co-opted torch symbol. Why?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blinkgla.jpg

In the 1970s — 40+ years ago — the last of the “big business monuments” were opened in Chicago. What happened?

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Hancock Broke Ground 1965 Opened 1968

Willis Broke Ground 1970 Opened 1974

Aon Broke Ground 1970 Opened 1974

No known building plans for major corporations.


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Note emphasis in The Honorable Michael Bloomberg’s Twitter bio: "Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City“ | @MikeBloomberg

Small Slice of Manhattan’s Sprawling Skyline, Winter 2015

http://www.kayak.com/h/hermes/redirect/paid?a=email_spotlight&p=Booking_banner/deals/20150211_email_spotlight_def&cr=MC4wMHw=&prv=ed-Booking&plid=5216958&orig=D.E.SL..L&emailid=20150211&to=3745286008&ptyp=E&extsE=1424232000000&brand=KAYAK&locale=en_US&campaign=spotlightVacations20150211_KAYAK&url=http://on.kayak.com/1z8cMLX

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In nearly 7,000 known languages around the world, how does “Chicago” translate into global socioeconomic significance? (Map depicts cities or regions with largest Internet traffic connecting data with other hubs.)


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Realistic, productive, and more positive way to think . . .


—Messenger You Pledged to Not Shoot

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—The Messenger You Pledged Not to Shoot

Tourists Conventions Urban dwellers Government agencies Government operatives Government suppliers

Franchise expansion Branch offices (Many!) Academicians Start-up entrepreneurs Film and TV production Freight and logistics

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. . . always in the making


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Few Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Chicago. Companies here are relatively small compared to others on the annual list of 500 biggest.


Eight (8) of the Fortune 500 are based in Chicago while an additional 25 are elsewhere in Illinois; total in IL of 33 of top 500. (As of June 2014)

What would keep large results-driven

businesses from locating in Chicago?

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Has the third largest U.S. city neglected to focus mostly on ways jobs and money are generated, in favor of near preoccupation with ways public money is allocated?

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What still weighs

Chicago down?

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Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Wow? Now?

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1. Be BOLD for the world! 2. Be comfortable in the world! 3. Be committed to the world! 4. Be courageous in the world!


Please take this personally. It’s about us as individuals.

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Think deeper . . .

Think wider . . .

Think higher . . .

Think Big!

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Local-to-regional

Local-to-national

Local-to-global

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Is Chicago the U.S. Small Business Capital City?

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Chicago’s Zeitgeist Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow

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“The zeitgeist is a spirit of the age or spirit of the time; the intellectual fashion, emotional state, and/or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period (era) in time.”


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Paternalism

Dependency

Neediness

Distrust

Entitlement

Impatience

Low Confidence

Fear, etc.

A Patriarchal Culture’s People Dependent — or excessively interdependent

(instead of individuals or organizations sensing their independence and being independent)

Fearful and often exceptionally needy

Risk-averse and frequently greedy

Focused too tightly on the home front

Craving and demanding protection

An underlying sense of entitlement to Dad’s protective approval and HELP (money, etc.)

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Shouting The Chicago Fire got votes.

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“Free” became an entitlement

A politically transgressive view . . . 60


After the Chicago Fire of 1871, major corporations and other businesses grew to depend upon elected and appointed officials in ways a capitalistic free-enterprise economy was to always avoid. General Sheridan’s Martial Law remains embedded in many Chicagoans’ DNA.


After The Fire of 1871, socioeconomically Chicago fell and stayed behind — “like Mrs. O’Leary’s cow’s tail,” as the barnyard saying goes. Rome blamed Emperor Nero for its 64 A.D. fire. “Cow Town” Chicago blamed an innocent cow.

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Lost loved ones Lost property Lost assets Lost jobs Lost dreams “Feeling lost”

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Imagine trust-busting impact on Chicago’s prospective buyers in New York, London, Paris, Dubai, San Francisco and other great cities.

U.S. Independence and Chicago

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4 July 1776 The U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1788 — The United States Constitution was ratified (12 years later). 1837 — Chicago was incorporated 61 years after The Declaration

was signed, and 49 years after The U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1861-1865 — The U.S. Civil War galvanized the nation’s attention;

arresting attention away from newly incorporated Chicago.

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How connected was Chicago with the rest of the country? Were we disconnected by-default — more so than strategically aligned?

1871 —The Chicago Fire probably placed Chicago on the nation’s

mind — only six years after the end of The Civil War, 34 years after Chicago was incorporated, 88 years after The US Constitution was ratified, and 95 years after the Declaration of 1776 was signed.

Feeling vulnerable and “separate,” in 1871 did Chicago’s citizens

connect through a sociopsychological Declaration of Dependence (e.g., connecting trough governments and public officials)?

U.S. Independence and Chicago

Be pleased, not proud!

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Aim to be personally

pleased about Chicago’s

ongoing renaissance.

Admit pride distracts us

from acknowledging our

socioeconomic truths.

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Love Chicago for it’s ever-readiness to soar to new heights.

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What’s love got to do with it?


Questions and Responses


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http://vimeo.com/88065833

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You will want to watch “Chicago, a Film by The Chicago Board of Education” (c.1945):

Wintertime video of modern-day Chicago from a camera mounted on a drone:


http://vimeo.com/88065833


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The Ready City


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Chicago. The Ready City. Thank you!

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Honor Value in Regret

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Shame

Depression, Hopelessness, Faithlessness

Increased Risk for Physical and Mental

Illness

Antisocial Derision and Alienation of

Others

Delusion, Self-Sabotage,

Pathological Deceptiveness

Pride

Anxiety, Panic,

Fearfulness, Stress

Overeating, Obesity, Low/No Exercise

Addiction to Substances

and High-Risk Behaviors

Anger, Rage, Abusiveness

Self-Ego Absorption

Possible Interlocking Manifestations of Insidious Shame and Perilous Pride (For Discussion Purposes Only)

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Shame and pride essentially paralyze us. Remorse moves us down deep inward for assessment. Regret lifts us back up for learning what we can. Reconciliation accelerates forward motion.

“Barely scratch the thin veneer of pride and almost invariably you will find deeply embedded shame.”

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“Faith trumps hope for shaping your future. Hope is an ‘ask.’ Faith is a personal fact.”

Reaching Higher Ground for Clearer Views toward Vision, Viability and Victory

Strengthening knowledge

Going beyond the obvious

Breaking through barriers

Digging deeper

Reaching wider

Soaring higher

Think differently

Act decisively

Dare boldly

Accept consequences

Fail insightfully

Succeed humbly

Self and others

Perception and judgment

Preparedness and process

Detours and delays

Regret and forgiveness

Providence and mystery

Focus Multiplier™ for Increasing Domain Awareness for Leaders Strategic Alignment for Metacognitive Thinking and other Effort

Climbing to Just-Right Hill-Height, A Vantage Point to Your Advantage℠ Digging, drilling and thinking deeper for reaching, climbing and soaring higher.

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Left Brain for Viability: Uses logic Detail-oriented Defines “it” Knows object’s name Facts rule Words and language Present and past Math and science Comprehends Knowing Acknowledges Order/pattern perception Reality-based Forms strategies Practical Safe (risk-averse?) Humble by deduction Asking: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Wow?

Right Brain for Vision: Uses feeling Big-picture oriented Describes “it” Knows object’s function Imagination rules Symbols and images Present and future Philosophy and religion Senses intrinsic value Believing Appreciates Spatial perception Imagination-based Presents possibilities Impetuous Risk-ready and able Hubris-prone (caution!)

Inviting:

Mindfulness Engagement Free-association Uncertainty Randomness Regret (not shame) Providence

Views toward Victory

Views toward Viability < > Views toward Vision

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High-Impact Leader Lens™ (HILL) for Viewing from Higher Ground Ceaseless Change

The HILL Model™ for Vision, Viability and Victory

Viability

Vision Courage (Situational)

Wisdom (Strategic)

Trust

(Conditional)

Patience (Tactical)

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Strengthening knowledge Going beyond the obvious Breaking through barriers Digging deeper Reaching wider Soaring higher

The HILL Model™ for Vision, Viability and Victory High-Impact Leader Lens™ (HILL) for Viewing from Higher Ground Ceaseless Change Focus Multiplier™ for Increasing Domain Awareness of Fully Responsible Leaders Facilitating Metacognitive Alignment toward Dynamic Strategies, Tactics and Metrics

Infuse Wisdom for: (Strategic)

Courage

Wisdom

Trust

Patience


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Think differently Act decisively Dare boldly Accept consequences Fail insightfully Succeed humbly


Invoke Courage to: (Situational)

Courage

Wisdom

Trust

Patience


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Self and others Perception and judgment Preparedness and process Detours and delays Regret and forgiveness Providence and mystery


Instill Patience with and Trust in: (Tactical and Conditional respectively)

Courage

Wisdom

Trust

Patience


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