We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies - from Zappos, to Starbucks, to American Apparel - for examples of how this idea might play itself out. We need to do more to make service jobs into higher-paying family-supporting jobs of the future.
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't. - Richard Florida
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.
- Richard Florida
Ideas are the currency of the new economy. - Richard Florida
Ideas are the currency of the new economy.
Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few mont… - Richard Florida
Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few mont…
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. - Richard Florida
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and … - Richard Florida
We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and …
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed. - Richard Florida
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.
Denser cities are smarter and more productive - Richard Florida
Denser cities are smarter and more productive
Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creati… - Richard Florida
Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creati…
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a n… - Richard Florida
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a n…
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