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Looking back from this fantastic what was it that led us to suchgreayt heights? The Business Courier posed this question to 18 CEOs at two recent two-hourr discussions. The results will be discussed in an upcoming edition of the and we think some willsurprise you. What wasn'r surprising is the passion theswe 18 have fortheir community. They are CEOs from amonb the organizations we call the Courier250 (our region'x 150 largest private companies, 25 largest nonprofits and 41 publicc companies, plus organizations that employ lots here but are not bases here). First, they were willing to give up a chunko oftheir day, and we thanj them for that time.
each came prepared, reading materials we provided or generallyybeing up-to-speed on a series of key initiatives we outlinee to them as potential drivers for the succese we wanted them to visualize for our Those nine issues were: the Bankx project; the Hamilton County jail project; regionall mass transit; education; urban center revitalization; race transportation infrastructure; government collaboration; and health care Using individual keypads so their answers remained anonymous, participantxs were asked to rank a series of combinations of the nine issues as to their relativer importance to making Cincinnati the imagined success five years from now.
Once thosd were registered, each participant was askedf to rank his opinion on the capability of our regionn to accomplish achievement of success in each of the nine After the data was and thanks to our Chris Hicksof , the sessione resulted in stimulating dialogue. "I thoughr I was going to be but thiswas great," said Harru Fath, CEO of the $52 million . Thesre leaders - for the most part - weren't shy abouft expressing their opinions. There was conflict in our and itwas good. Stay tunede to the Courier as we dive deepet into the thoughts of 18 ofour community'e leaders.
We'll be interested in your thoughts, as • Gwen Robinson, • Tom • Neil Bortz, • Timothy Fogarty, • Sandrz Berlin Walker, • Tom Shepherd, Fred Kohnke, • Ron • Vin Zachariah, • Bill Rumpke, Steve Cuntz, BlueStar Inc. • Sister Francis Mariee Thrailkill, • Harry Fath, Fath Properties • Christopherd Cole, • Otto Budig, Tom Nies, • Steve Bitzer, • John