DT#452 Sometimes Doing the Right Thing is Hard

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <strong><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometimes Doing the Right Thing is Hard</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Caution! This is the cynical and bitter version of the Develop This! podcast!</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In this episode, Dennis vents his frustrations about the difficulty of building coalitions even when you're trying to do the right thing. Dennis has made a conscious decision to be less like Neville Chamberlain and more like Winston Churchill.....Never, never, never, give up</p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal">Economic development professionals are often at the nexus of difficult projects</li> <li class="MsoNormal">Everyone wants to impact workforce but doing meaningful work and doing the right thing is hard</li> <li class="MsoNormal">You would think it would be easy to build coalitions and that everyone would understand what’s at stake if we fail to take action</li> <li class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, local politics, egos, and turf battles can derail even the best intentions</li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neville-Chamberlain"><strong>Neville Chamberlain</strong></a> was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his role in the Munich Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><img src= "https://cdn.britannica.com/87/7287-004-A5AB2B25/photograph-Neville-Chamberlain-Bassano.jpg?s=1500x700&q=85" width="142" height="183" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href= "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Winston-Churchill"><strong>Winston Churchill</strong></a> was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour lead