Last year, Honda began emptying its Torrance North American headquarters and replanting itself in Ohio. Toyota’s move impacts about 3,000 employees based in the company’s 100-acre facility—2,000 in sales and marketing, another 1,000 in financial services. A smaller number of employees in Kentucky and New York will also be a ffected.
More than 36,000 corporations left California from 1990 to 2010, about a tenth of them resettling in Texas, according to the corporate-move database maintained by Oakland business analyst Don Walls. Along with the absence of corporate real estate tax, Texas’s often-cited benefits include lower living costs, fewer regulations and the tough-to-define-but-everyone agrees-it-counts pro-business environment.
For all the attention paid to Texas, nine-tenths of the corporate tra ffic goes elsewhere, according to Walls’ data. Individuals follow the economic carrot towards other western and Rocky Mountain states. After Texas and Nevada, the top magnet states were Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho and Utah. While Texas pulled in the most transplants, the dollars went disproportionately to Nevada—about $5.7 billion of California capital between 2000 and 2010, according to a study done by the Manhattan Institute. One interpretation: wage earners follow specific jobs, while entrepreneurs create startups closer to home.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.
