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Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground is a weekly podcast hosted by Hire Ground Founder and CEO Cloe Guidry-Reed and diversity and inclusion leader Adam Moore. Each week we will have an in-depth discussion with procurement leaders and supplier diversity teams, successful suppliers, relevant associations, historians, and economists. We make the enterprise ecosystem more viable, profitable, and competitive by clearing the path for minority, women, LGBTQ, and veteran-led small businesses to contribute to the global economy as suppliers to corporations.
Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground – Episode 164: Author Bruce Katz on Building the Inclusive Economy of the Future
Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground
39 minutes 10 seconds
1 year ago
Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground – Episode 164: Author Bruce Katz on Building the Inclusive Economy of the Future
Bruce Katz is the Founder of New Localism Associates, a firm that helps cities finance, deliver, and design innovative initiatives that focus on sustainable growth and inclusion. He received the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his contributions to city planning and influences on the community’s economy and livability. He authored the book The New Localism, which provides a roadmap for change that begins in the local communities. Bruce is also the Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University.
Bruce joins us today to describe how the pandemic adversely impacted minority-led businesses. He shares why the “New Normal” doesn’t exist despite the buzzword’s popularity. He offers his take on the future of diversity and what the workforce will look like. He discusses how every business grows through routines. Bruce also reveals why the US doesn’t have a capital problem and what needs to happen for him to say the country is making progress.
“Don’t waste the crisis—crisis begets innovation.” - Bruce Katz
This week on Breaking Barriers:
Bruce Katz and his work on inclusion
The destructive effect the pandemic had on Black and Latino businesses
Why there is no “New Normal” according to Bruce
Bruce’s observations on the workforce and the future of diversity
The difference between contract-driven and collateral-driven financing
Why routines are necessary for growing businesses
Why we don’t have a capital problem in the US
What would need to happen for Bruce to say we’re making progress
Connect with Bruce Katz:
The New Localism
Drexel University
Book: The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
Bruce Katz on LinkedIn
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Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground
Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground is a weekly podcast hosted by Hire Ground Founder and CEO Cloe Guidry-Reed and diversity and inclusion leader Adam Moore. Each week we will have an in-depth discussion with procurement leaders and supplier diversity teams, successful suppliers, relevant associations, historians, and economists. We make the enterprise ecosystem more viable, profitable, and competitive by clearing the path for minority, women, LGBTQ, and veteran-led small businesses to contribute to the global economy as suppliers to corporations.
