My BLOG posts usually report on past events, but this breaks the mould by expressed reservations about a lecture I've been hired to give in just under two weeks. And it has a particularly scary angle to it! Well, to shorten the suspense, I am delivering the Trulaske College of Business & Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs Missouri Bankers Chair Lecture on Thursday, March 21, 2013. This comes on almost the 67th anniversary of another much more famous presentation in small town Missouri, which took place only 23 miles (39km) from where I am about to deliver mine.
I will start by pointing out that I am not a banker, though our superannuation fund has a substantial holding in bank shares. My presentation is simply about doing effective regional economic development and the roles played in that by small and medium enterprises and the market system including the creation and circulation of venture capital. I am using my own libertarian background and ideas from all over the place to development my argument.
That other presentation 67 years ago ... just 9 months after I was born, had the US president in the audience - Harry S Truman after who my host School was named and he, too, was from small town Missouri. I should say that I have no expectation that President Obama will be in my audience because the person who delivered that address in 1946 was one of the most famous persons of the 20th century and he delivered one of the most famous speeches of that epoch: Winston Churchill and his speech that gave us the term "the iron curtain". The venue was Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri. Of course, Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, but over 200 km from Columbia.
I'll let you know my efforts were received after the event and hope you wish me well. By the way, I have two presentations to give at Denton in Texas before reaching Columbia, both on similar themes, and it's useful to do dry runs. And how did I wind up travelling to Denton and Columbia. Well, my host at the former, Terry Clower, has previously hosted me in Dallas and is a member of the editorial board of the journal I co-edit! And the head of the School of Public Affairs in Columbia and I co-presented at a conference at Hervey Bay in SE Queensland last Novemeber and he liked what I said ad invited me across! Isn't networking wonderful?
AS
I will start by pointing out that I am not a banker, though our superannuation fund has a substantial holding in bank shares. My presentation is simply about doing effective regional economic development and the roles played in that by small and medium enterprises and the market system including the creation and circulation of venture capital. I am using my own libertarian background and ideas from all over the place to development my argument.
That other presentation 67 years ago ... just 9 months after I was born, had the US president in the audience - Harry S Truman after who my host School was named and he, too, was from small town Missouri. I should say that I have no expectation that President Obama will be in my audience because the person who delivered that address in 1946 was one of the most famous persons of the 20th century and he delivered one of the most famous speeches of that epoch: Winston Churchill and his speech that gave us the term "the iron curtain". The venue was Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri. Of course, Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, but over 200 km from Columbia.
I'll let you know my efforts were received after the event and hope you wish me well. By the way, I have two presentations to give at Denton in Texas before reaching Columbia, both on similar themes, and it's useful to do dry runs. And how did I wind up travelling to Denton and Columbia. Well, my host at the former, Terry Clower, has previously hosted me in Dallas and is a member of the editorial board of the journal I co-edit! And the head of the School of Public Affairs in Columbia and I co-presented at a conference at Hervey Bay in SE Queensland last Novemeber and he liked what I said ad invited me across! Isn't networking wonderful?
AS
3 comments:
Well, good luck with the presentation. Is there any chance you could have your presentation recorded? If so, any chance you could send me a disc with it on or alternatively could you get it put on U-Tube for me and others to enjoy? Anyway, again good luck with it. Richard.
Only 3 more weeks until Helen finishes work then 3 more weeks later her second baby boy should arrive. Richard.
I have no idea whether it's a largely private meeting or will even be on prime-time TV! My guess is the former. I could send a copy of my power-point presentation.
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