Public capital is a key building block to community

Public Capital
Public capital are those organizations within a community that can come together to help expand the riches of a community, help build community where it can do some good and help rebuild when opportunities have become challenges. One reason we are focused on the Selling Hartsville strategy for Hartsville is the need to continue expanding the public capital or what also might be called the social capital that will enable Hartsville to be an even better community tomorrow than it is today.
OPPORTUNITIES TO CHALLENGES
We have some opportunities that have become challenges. Hartsville has been home to one of the most successful publicly traded companies based in the southeastern United States for more than 109 years. That company is S-o-n-o-c-o. At one point in history this company brought in executives to help manage, run and lead the various operations. At that point in history, most of those people chose Hartsville for their home. That is no longer the case and the opportunity of being headquarters for a multi-billion dollar company has become the current challenge to find ways of again making Hartsville the community of choice. In Hartsville, we have been fortunate to have many people working on this challenge but we need many more to take up the cause or Hartsville could become a shell of the small city many of us enjoy calling home.
HARWOOD IN DETROIT
In this posting today is a video by Rich Harwood, whose Public Innovators' Laboratory is in Detroit the first three days of this week. I am including a short video he did today because while we are not yet where Detroit is, we have to act now so we don't get there before we understand that is where we are. I don't expect anyone to enjoy Rich's observations but I hope they will ignite some of your own thinking about how we might continue amassing public capital in Hartsville so we begin to look at more opportunities than challenges.