Listening across our region to voices and thinking about what kind of future we are designing in our efforts, it’s clear that eastern North Carolina is a unique place with both unique opportunities and unique challenges unlike any other part of the state. What’s striking in many of these hopes is the amount of future…Read More from Sound Strategy: Long-term success of Greater Outer Banks economy is chess, not checkers

by Clark Twiddy

“In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long-term, it’s a weighing machine.” – Benjamin Graham With the Memorial Day holiday weekend just around the corner, our regional visitor economy swings into full speed for what will once again be a busy summer. In the short-term, our commerce engines continue to…Read More from Sound Strategy: “Are you planning to come back?” is best measure of OBX visitor economy’s future

by Clark Twiddy

Around virtually every seeming corner in our lives at the moment lies some kind of dramatic evolution; whether it’s banking headlines, housing developments, or simply the pace of change, we are left to wonder with little confidence what lies around the next corner. As Elie Wiesel is famous for pointing out, it isn’t the change…Read More from Sound Strategy: Choice, not change, dictates what lies next

by Clark Twiddy