CEOS for CITIES
Why We Exist
Who We Are
What Values Drive Us
What We Do
How We Do It
Where We’re Going

So for those of you who may
be concerned…….
I‟ll begin with the conclusion.

 The Future
Belongs to those
Cities Who Can:
See it
Plan it
Design it
Execute it
Reinvent it

 5 Ways CEOs for Cities
helps Cities
See
Plan
Design
Execute
Reinvent
Their Future

We help your city….
• Frame your opportunities and
challenges
• Act in ways that demonstrate
measurable progress
• Connect and Engage with the
smartest people and smartest ideas
in the most ways in the most places
• Cross
sectors, borders, levels, disciplines
, and generations
• Manage to the hidden curves and
edges that can’t be seen but must
be heard –to think and act like a

CEOS for CITIES
Why We Exist

Want to Change the World?
Start with your City.

Want to Change Your City?
Start with your Vision of your
Future.

Someday I‟ll have a
family and a start-up
of my own…
“ The human being is the only animal
that thinks about the future.”
DANIEL GILBERT,
“STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS”

But how can you imagine a future
when the world is coming at you
at lightning speed?
THE PARADIGM
HAS SHIFTED.

But how can you imagine a future
when the world is coming at you
at lightning speed?
THE PARADIGM
HAS SHIFTED.

We‟re adding 1 billion people
every 12 years

Think about all the information
created from the dawn of civilization
up until 2003

Last Week
“ Every two days now we create as
much information as we did from the
dawn of civilization up until 2003”
ERIC SCHMIDT
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, GOOGLE

JUST SIX YEARS AGO…
“ Facebook didn't exist;
Twitter was a sound; the cloud was
in the sky; 4G was a parking place;
LinkedIn was a prison; applications
were what you sent to college; and
Skype for most people was a typo.”
TOM FRIEDMAN
AUTHOR, “THAT USED TO BE US”

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on Ebay
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mobile sales to grow in the
2009 2011 next few years

Number of
mobile apps available
ONE
millio
8,000 n
October Today
2008 2012

WE SEND OVER
8 BILLION
TEXT MESSAGES
PER DAY
42 %
JESSICA

IF FACEBOOK WERE
A SEPARATE COUNTRY,
IT WOULD BE THE
3RD LARGEST COUNTRY
IN THE WORLD.

Why didn‟t Myspace
create Facebook?

Myspace vs. Facebook
Faceboo
k unique
vi s i t o r s
M yspace
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Compare Facebook growth
from 2006 to 2012
800
10
2006 2012
Facebook Users (in millions)

Why didn‟t Palm Pilot invent
the iPhone?

Why didn‟t Blockbuster
create Netflix?

Think Like a Startup
Manage to the Hidden Curves and
Edges
Not Seen but Anticipated

ESTABLISH A CONTINUOUS
PRESERVATION-DESTRUCTION-CREATION CYCLE
Manage Selectively Create
the Present Destroy the Past the Future

“ What I want
to do, hasn‟t been
invented yet…”
JASON

THE BIGGEST
DRIVER OF
GLOBAL ECONOMIC
GROWTH?

Cities.

WE HUDDLE

GLOBAL URBAN
POPULATION GROWTH.
Million Annually

New Chicagos Each Year

INCUBATORS OF INNOVATION
75% 80%
of nation‟s GDP of world‟s GDP

STOP WAITING FOR
WASHINGTON...
“ … we should be looking more to
our backyards and communities…
than to Washington…”
ADAM SEGAL
ADVANTAGE: HOW AMERICAN INNOVATION
CAN OVERCOME THE ASIAN CHALLENGE

CHANGE BY US

WE ENGAGE
Change by Us
helps you share ideas, start projects, connect with
resources, and make your community better.

The biggest
driver in cities?

Great
Leaders.

“ The greatest natural
power source of
economic growth are
a city‟s tribal leaders...”
JIM CLIFTON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF GALLUP,
AUTHOR OF “THE COMING JOBS WAR”

NOT JUST ANY
LEADERS

CONNECTED,
CROSS-SECTOR,
CROSS-
BORDER, CROSS-
LEVEL, CROSS-
GENERATION
LEADERS

CEOS for CITIES
Who We Are

WHAT IS CEOS FOR CITIES?
CEOs for Cities is a global learning
community and partnership network of civic
CEOs and urban leaders that connects
cross-sector, cross-generational urban
leaders to each other and to smart ideas
and practices in the four areas most vital to
city success:
Connectedness
Innovation
Talent
Your Distinctive Assets

WE CROSS SECTORS,
BORDERS, LEVELS,
DISCIPLINES, AND
GENERATIONS .

What‟s a CEO?

We are Civic
CEOs

We honor and welcome
leadership
where it happens
regardless of rank or
sector

The Inclusive „E‟ in CEO:
Executive
Education
Economic
Experience
Exploration
Entrepreneurial

CEOS for CITIES
What Values Drive Us

OUR OVERRIDING
VALUE…….
HUMILITY
There‟s always something more to
learn from someone
else, somewhere else.

NO CITY LACKS TALENT, BUT
TALENT IS NOT ENOUGH
MUST BE
CROSS-SECTOR
CROSS-GENERATION
CROSS-BORDER
CROSS-CONNECTED
CROSS-ENGAGED

“ Our ability to connect with each
other is the defining characteristic
of our species… knowledge {is}
more valuable than ever and that
has increased the value of learning
from people in other cities.”
ED GLAESER, HARVARD PROFESSOR
TRIUMPH OF THE CITY

CEOS for CITIES
What We Do

We help you FACE
your City Frame
Act
Connect
Engage

Frame: City Vitals
Act: City Dividends
Connect: Our Network
Engage : City Clusters

Framing Matters
“If you change the way
you look at things, the
things you look at change”
Wayne Dyer

OUR RESEARCH PORTFOLIO.

FOUR LETTERS THAT
MAKE UP “CITY”
SPELL GENETIC CODE
OF
URBAN SUCCESS

Our framework for
measuring city success
is our City Vitals

Lessons
THE FRAMEWORK FOR CITY
LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW
ECONOMY

Lesson 1
CONNECTEDNESS
BUILD A CULTURE OF CONNECTEDNESS
Leaders are not heroic decision- makers.
They are architects of intersections.

LIFE AT THE INTERSECTION

“ Our ability to connect with each
other is the defining characteristic
of our species… knowledge {is}
more valuable than ever and that
has increased the value of learning
from people in other cities.”
ED GLAESER, HARVARD PROFESSOR
TRIUMPH OF THE CITY

City Vitals: CONNECTED
Voting
Community Involvement
Economic Integration
Transit Use
International Students
Foreign Travel
Internet Connectivity

Lesson 2
INNOVATION
BUILD A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
But if you can‟t imagine it, you can‟t create it.

“ I just learned how to skate where
the puck was going, not where it
was.”

City Vitals: INNOVATIVE
Patents
Venture Capital
Self-employment
Small Businesses

Lesson 3
TALENT
BUILD A CULTURE OF TALENT
When you think about the flow of capital, think about
mining the most valuable capital on earth- human
capital.

City Vitals: TALENT
College Attainment
Creative Professionals
Young and Restless
Traded Sector Talent
International Talent

Lesson 4
YOUR DISTINCTIVE ASSETS
BUILD A CULTURE OF INVESTMENT IN
YOUR DISTINCTIVE ASSETS
Focus on what‟s right.
Strategy is about difference.

Our action agenda
is our City Dividends

THE PROGRESS
PRINCIPLE
The single most important motivator
and catalyst for positive action is
making progress and showing forward
momentum in meaningful work.
Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile

NATIONAL CITY DIVIDENDS
$124 billion $28.6 billion $13.1 billion

TALENT DIVIDEND
$124
BILLION

CEOS for CITIES
How We Do It

This is not just about
moving forward. It is about
connecting outward and
moving forward.

We connect and engage
through our learning
community and partnership
network.

Partners in over 60 North
American Cities.

CONSTANT re:thinking

OUR ORGANIZATIONAL
PLATFORM
Individuals
Businesses / Higher Education /
Organizations
City Clusters

HOW WE ENGAGE.
Individuals, Businesses,
Organizations and City Clusters

CITY CLUSTERS
Teams of cross-
sector, cross-generational
leaders in each city in our
learning community and
partnership network.

CITY CLUSTERS
Participate as a team in
our convenings and access
our exclusive knowledge
base and network.

WHAT THE CITY CLUSTER IS NOT
• The City Cluster is not another new organization in
your city with regular meetings you must attend.
• It is not a business roundtable made up
exclusively
of private sector CEOs.
• It is not a group of outside experts who think
that they know what's best for your city.

WHAT THE CITY CLUSTER IS
• The City Cluster is a team of cross-sector, cross-
generational civic CEOs and urban leaders
committed to participating in a global learning
community and partnership network.
• No city lacks talent; but most cities lack a structure
and process for harnessing cross-sector talent, and
sharing smart ideas not only across sectors, but
across borders, levels, and generations.
• We are extremely inclusive. City clusters allow
individuals and organizations who could not
otherwise afford to participate, to join the CEOs
for Cities network.

• Cincinnati
• Detroit
• Grand Rapids
• Indianapolis
• Memphis
• Miami
• Milwaukee
• Richmond
• San Jose
• And many more in progress

CEOS for CITIES
Where We’re Going

DEEPER MEMBER -DRIVEN
RESEARCH PORTFOLIO.

Our action agenda
Future City Dividends

Our action agenda
Future Dividend Prize
Competitions

CITY CLUSTERS
Many More City Clusters
and Stronger Value
Proposition for our City
Clusters

CITY CLUSTERS
Regional Meetings
City Fellows
City Dream Teams
City Missions

Connect and engage through
our GLOBAL learning
community and partnership
network.

WE WILL ENGAGE GLOBALLY

“ Tear down walls,
build bridges, and
light fires.”
STEVE JOBS

SERENITY PRAYER FOR CITIES
God, grant my city the humility to
accept that there‟s always something
more to learn from someone
else, somewhere else;
The speed to keep up with a world
that‟s moving at lightning speed;
The flexibility to adapt and change
as we learn;

And the wisdom
to join CEOs for Cities.