by Glenn | Sep 22, 2026 | Best practice, Book, business case, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, Politics, Professional development
If you want to keep the momentum of devolution going and don’t want to see powers and resources taken back by Whitehall in 10 years, you will need to be. The UK government has a bad habit – it abolishes the institutions and structures for local economic...
by Glenn | Sep 11, 2026 | Best practice, Book, business case, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Uncategorized
In the late 1990s I spent the best part of two years inside the engine rooms of economic development. I interviewed chief executives, directors and managers of development agencies in Scotland, London, Belfast and Berlin for my doctorate, and I went looking for the...
by Glenn | Sep 3, 2026 | Best practice, Book, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, General, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Policy, Politics, Professional development, Restructuring
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by Glenn | Jul 20, 2026 | Best practice, Book, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice
I mean the question literally, and I think everyone in this field should answer it. Not โdo you want your place to prosperโ โ everyone wants that, the way everyone wants good weather. I mean: does your institution intend to become genuinely excellent at the discipline...
by Glenn | May 6, 2026 | Best practice, Book, Competency, CPD, General
Not because they weren’t smart. Not because they didn’t work hard. But because nobody had ever explained to them what economic development actually is. What is the mission? What is the function? What are the dilemmas you’ll face when public purpose...
by Glenn | May 6, 2026 | Best practice, Book, Competency, CPD, General
I sat in meetings early in my career where decisions were being made and I didn’t know the local backstory. Who had tried what before? Why certain approaches had been abandoned? What are the political sensitivities? What the community actually needed versus what...
