CEOs help imagine thriving future - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Looking back from this fantastic what was it that led us to suchgreaty heights? The Business Courier posed this questiohn to 18 CEOs at two recenr two-hour discussions. The results will be discussed in an upcoming editionb ofthe Courier, and we think some will surpriser you. What wasn't surprising is the passionn these 18 have fortheir community. They are CEOs from amongv the organizations we call the Courier250 (our region's 150 largest private companies, 25 largest nonprofits and 41 public companies, plus organizations that employ lots here but are not based First, they were willingg to give up a chunlk of their day, and we thank them for that time.
each came prepared, reading materials we provided or generallybeing up-to-speed on a series of key initiatives we outlinede to them as potential driverz for the success we wanted them to visualiz e for our region. Those nine issues were: the Bankzs project; the Hamilton County jail project; regional mass transit; urban center revitalization; race relations; transportation infrastructure; government collaboration; and health care infrastructure. Using individual keypad so their answers remained participants were asked to rank a series of combinations of the nine issuew as to their relative importance to makintg Cincinnati the imagined success five yeardfrom now.
Once those were registered, each participang was asked to rank his opinion on the capability of our regiojn to accomplish achievement of successe in each of the nine After the datawas examined, and thankz to our facilitator, Chris Hicks of , the sessions resultedc in stimulating dialogue. "I thought I was going to be bored, but this was said Harry Fath, CEO of the $52 million . Thes e leaders - for the most part - weren'ty shy about expressing their opinions. There was conflict in our and itwas good. Stay tunedd to the Courier as we dive deeper into the thoughtes of 18 ofour community's leaders. We'll be interestef in your thoughts, as well.
• Gwen • Tom Jones, • Neil • Timothy Fogarty, Sandra Berlin Walker, • Tom Shepherd, • Fred Kohnke, • Ron • Vin Zachariah, • Bill • Steve Cuntz, BlueStar Inc. • Sistert Francis Marie Thrailkill, • Harry Fath, Fath Properties Christopher Cole, • Otto Budig, • Tom • Steve Bitzer, • John Hayden,