I would recommend this book to anyone involved in local affairs, concerned about local affairs, or considering involvement in local affairs. And it's because we, we we discovered that if if we were homebound because we were sick that Amazon didn't send us a note to say hey, are you okay? Because community is about having people with different opinions and different walks of life and diversity all being together. You know, I don't have it in the book, but I say during the presentations. Doug Griffiths 52:42. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. And and it's because we don't pay attention to what we're doing. Rather than present uplifting avenues of potential reward, Griffiths frames his observations for the theoretical saboteur hellbent on destroying his community. Step 7: Meet expectations. But um, and I'll link to that Facebook group too. Everyone knows businesses are important. Leduc/Wetaskiwin Chamber of Commerce members received some interesting and at time counter-intuitive advice on how to make small business prosper Sept. 13 at the annual "Meet in the Millet" luncheon.
Doug retired from politics in January 2015. to actively pursue his passion of helping communities, organizations and businesses grow stronger in his best selling book 13 Ways to Kill Your Community. That's such a big question. And if you ever stop, then the relationship stops. So the next question that we had is, is the chamber model that we currently have? And they're there to support each other and help each other. Written in a way that is easy to follow and understand. His 13 points could apply to farms just about as well as rural communities. And now you have a common understanding. Supporting food innovation beyond the farm gate. I'm hoping yes, but I'm an optimist.
All Prices shown are in US Canadian Dollars. I'd like that point that being in a gig culture, and that's how we engage the youth now is it's one one gig at a time, right? In that time, he served in two senior cabinet portfolios as Minister of Municipal Affairs, and Minister of service Alberta, as well as three junior positions in agriculture, finance and Solicitor General. And yet they're one of the biggest things I think that's missing the chamber should be doing is some professional development for their businesses, showing them you know, how to enhance the bricks and mortar, having classes for them to you know, there's still so many consults going around and you spent $10, 000 to get a website designed and if you're, you got the wrong person, if that's what it's costing to design. Keeping a healthy diet postpartumGlobal News Morning Edmonton.
Get all the organization will give you, but don't give the. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community offers practical, implementable steps that can be taken to bring a moribund community back to life. And so their high school students, they would say things like, well, I'd, I'd be a drug addict, I'd write that on the board, I'd wind up in jail, I'd write that on the board, I would fail out of school. This is a critical area on farms. Now, you you put out a press release, and 500 other organizations have the same idea and that gets lost in the noise. In it, Griffiths muses about his experience as a politician, rancher, and a teacher, and lists the things communities are doing that have a direct and negative consequence on its future—addressing everything from water quality to failing to attract businesses, to maintaining poor beautification standards to failing to engage youth, seniors, and immigrants. Well, the response was, Well, we should get you some garbage bags. So we, we, I brought along a couple of people and our team has grown to five and we have specialists in economic development and chamber issues and communication in modernizing main streets with with designs and socialization in website design, and, and social media and traditional marketing strategies. And otherwise you leave a voicemail. I mean, you know, my grandpa always reminded me, you, you can go for three minutes without air three days without water and three weeks without food.
Pick up a copy here. For me that actually made it a more entertaining read. And that is tearing our communities apart, for the sake of ideology and ideology, I have never found to be right ideas are what are important to help our communities move forward. Oftentimes Chamber Nation's customers agree that since Amazon is all centralized then why not their own community including their professional service providers. Less well known is…. To give people advice on how to make your community thrive and if it's having problem, some suggestions on how to fix them. Millennials tend to spend more than Baby Boomers. So I'm really excited to be here. The problem here is by focusing on one thing, you ignore, for example, your staff.
And yet, that might have worked back in the 80s, when when businesses did locate just were that you have the lowest taxes and you had the least number of regulations. Our guest for this episode is Doug Griffiths. And so we sort of do the gamut from, we need help all the way through to we're, we're ready to take that first step and actually bring people in. Doug grew up on a ranch outside of a small community, where that contributed to practical education for him giving a strong work ethic and critical thinking skills. So just just realizing and helping the businesses realize that when a new person from out of town shows up on Main Street, that first impression is everything. Tips to tackle dry skin and hair heading into springGlobal News Morning Edmonton. Former Alberta MLA turned author Doug Griffiths will be in the city Nov. 15 for a free public presentation about his book 13 Ways To Kill Your Community. The greatest value of the book is in the solutions it presents; examples of what small communities have done to meet these challenges head on are packed into every chapter. If you were in the room, you could tell that people were not only shocked but were listening wholeheartedly to what Griffiths said. Musquodoboit Harbour & Area Chamber of Commerce & Civic Affairs. Don't attract business, especially ones that will compete with yours. Yeah, it's um, it's kind of funny because it's expanded.
Step 13: Expect people to shop local. Tomato Magazine: Best things to eat and drink in EdmontonGlobal News Morning Edmonton. I mean, if you went after it from the perspective of do these things, and you'll be prosperous and do well, it gets ignored. But it is along the lines of if you had the importance of having systems and if you're too busy to have systems, you'll always be too busy. We see Chambers of Commerce do a presentation to explain why the Chamber of Commerce is important. May I suggest you take the time to read this?
The author sees the beauty in small town communities which is why this book was written. Griffiths has numerous acronyms for people he has encountered in rural communities, ranging from the well-known NIMBYs (not in my back yard) to FEARS, people who "fire up everyone against reasonable solutions. The book is an easy-to-read 150 pages. And I always point out to them, the last World War will be fought over water, because whoever controls water controls everything. Make sure you know what the life cycle of your product is. I mean, there's some modern chambers that are doing some pretty interesting things. Yeah, so that it really helps to apply that same kind of exercise to communities and say, if your goal is to kill your community, where do you start? Well, I mean, start the conversation about what the future can be and make sure the conversation is positive. Every book is a friend and what I don't have, I can order. And so I've been all over North America Speaking and then people would call me up after and say, so help us what, what do we do now. Within the first few minutes of the presentation he let people know more about himself.
AMA Travel: Spring in TahitiGlobal News Morning Edmonton. Sort of a preaching to the choir situation but I did garner a few gems out of it. Blaming others doesn't make them responsible for their community, he noted. But you give them a project, a gig to work on. I gave it to our City Administrator to help him see the many things that could be stalling our city's growth and hopefully learn from it. We also have a a community leaders camp coming up in the beautiful rocky mountains at the end of April. I just can't thank you enough. So let's say you want to be a drug addict? Use "boomerang strategies, " which encourage young people to come home a little later in life and set down roots. While the next world war might be fought over oil, Griffiths said, "The last world war will be fought over water. In the discussion on "ignore your youth", Doug opens with a direct challenge: is there succession planning for council or local government positions in your community?
It mockingly reflects the negative tones we often hear from other voices in the community and brings to light just how destructive those opinions and actions can be. To prioritize connectedness or shared interest or pursuit of collective opportunity or to more easily surrender ourselves to our natural inclination to close ranks in an effort to perpetuate an unsustainable reality with which we've grown comfortable. Absolutely, I'll get all that contact information in our show notes for this episode, which will be found at But Doug, this has been a real treat to have you on the podcast. And it's built on anger. In fact, the next book I'm working on is 13. pathways forward for communities, it's, you know, it's about the mindsets and the things that we could do to capitalize on, on what's coming. There's good research, good, good evidence show that it's valuable.
"There was numerous ones but I think the one major thing that stuck out for me was how he said people called in and said 'was it my community you were talking about, ' and the unfortunate part is it may be in every community, " said Ashlea Street, Co-owner of Rock Creek.