Dr. Bell: As we look at teams, and begin to look at alliances, we’ve got to be able to understand that if we are to lead successfully in our community, we have got to involve the folks that are in that community, we have got to bring them into the planning, into the process. Again, “Good to Great” calls that the right people in the right seat, on the right bus. Again, the key is that bus is going to go somewhere, and not every seat on the bus is the same. We don’t need people just to jump on, we need them actually performing the right kind of contribution. We also need to think about diversity. If we bring together an economic development group, and they all think just like we do, we are wasting a lot of people’s time. We’ve got somebody there that thinks like we do, now we need some folks who can debate, and some folks who come from a different type of background. Certainly here in the Upper Cumberland right now, we don’t have folks thinking about the Hispanic Community, and the effect that the Hispanic Community has on economic development, the resources that are there, we have left out a key stakeholder, and we’ve left out something that we just have to consider in our economic development strategies. So key stakeholders, who is really important to moving this process forward, what community representatives need to be at the table? And again, there is a tendency to say “well, the county commission doesn’t agree with us. We will just leave them out, let’s have a little secret meeting down at the chamber or out of the Red Lobster somewhere, and those commissioners will hear about it after it is too late to do anything”. You pick your own group, it doesn’t have to be a county commissioner, but whoever.

Again, we need people at the table who represent diverse opinions, so we need the folks who are the skeptics in this process, and we need our customers there, maybe not every meeting, but every now and then, our team needs to understand from our customer base, what they are perceiving about us. It’s funny, again, in business about the competitors, that were competitors 20 years ago, to General Motors, may be customers to General Motors today. They may be also at the same time, their customers, suppliers of General Motors. TRW, a supplier and a customer. The same thing with TRW would be to head outwards; General Motors, a customer and a supplier, so we see all kind of new relationships, and we have to think about diversity on these teams we are building, and bring them into the process. In addition to these big community meetings, we have to focus on some small action teams, that are focused on specific parts of our mission, and those small action teams work as well as strategic, large meetings.