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                 For  Learners and Leaders, a  time-saving 13-point abstract of a 7-page blog post: https://neuenergy.blogspot.com/2019/05/ontarios-new-freeway-for-new-towns.html     H aving fallen off CN/CP rural rails in the 1960s and losing rural population and municipal revenue, county collaboration on getting a Georgian Bay Freeway is crucial.                      1.    Promoted is a freeway from the 402 near Strathroy, north towards  Walkerton, and thence east to the 400 south of Barrie.    2.     M aki ng the Southern Georgian Bay Freeway visible to residents and to local, provincial and federal politicians is a challenge.    3.    Assessment of chaotic impacts of GTA congestion and rural disconnects has to be made part of long-range freeway planning.  4.    Rural and urban beneficiaries of the freeway should raise issues, debate and reach consensus before top level deliberation kicks in.  5.   Resisting the impulse to draw alternate routes on a map is wise

https://neuenergy.blogspot.com/2018/06/gta-relief-valve-new-cities-on-ontarios.html   This post relates to a  growth and transportation proposal  for Ontario's northern 519 area  and  the GTA. It has ties to the 400/401/402 freeways and to Huron, Bruce, Grey, Middlesex and Simcoe counties. Having fallen off the CN/CP rural rails in the 1960s and losing out on rural emlployment and municipal revenue growth, collaboration on getting a Southern Georgian Bay Freeway is now crucial. Expansion of the freeway grid and new employment centers are survival endgames.         Promoted is a freeway from the 402 east of Strathroy ,  north towards Walkerton/Hanover and thence east to the 400 south of Barrie. To keep the province competitive, expansion of the freeway grid should get on the South-west’s rolling 5-yr Highway Plan. Once a Right-of-Way is secured, construction is staged over decades as a 2-laner and then built out to full freeway standard as mid-century needs dictate.  

                                                                                   A  Work in Progress  -comments appreciated  https://e-catworld.com/2019/05/22/e-cat-the-long-view /   " From 1975 to 1985 a total of 12 nuclear reactors were commissioned in Sweden,---of these,  three have already been decommissioned and a further three will be decommissioned over the next 18 months   ... Following Three Mile Island a public referendum led to decommissioning reactors as they aged...    In the long view Leonardo Corp. could bend the arc of a deserving Swedish nation by providing enterprise scale power on location … and by so doing provide the world with an exemplar of what a wealthy high tech carbon and nuclear free future can look like at a national scale."  ---------------------------------------0---------------------------------------   The above is an excerpt from an article by Swedish author,  Roland Van Nus.  This is a must read for CEOs, engineers -and you

      https://www.fastcompany.com/27333/trillion-dollar-vision-dee-hock      Dee Hock on Chaordic Organizations: Principles that work for Visa.       Condensed e xcerpts from a side bar in a 1996 FastCompany article by Mitchell Waldrop.   " All organizations are conceptual embodiments of a very basic idea –the idea of community. They are the sum of beliefs of people drawn to them; of their character and efforts.  They must be adaptable to changing conditions, while preserving overall cohesion and unity of purpose.      Success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose and common principles than to assets or management competence.     The  governing structure distributes power and function to lowest level possible.  Visa member banks send representatives to a system of national, regional, and international boards, where each board raises common issues, debate them, and reach consensus.    Structure  must not be a chain of command, but rather a framework for di