We’ve seen a lot of discussion around our region lately about how decisions are made and ultimately whether the final decisions are in fact the right ones. Housing, for example, or Medicaid expansion, or the criminal justice system, or deciding what to post on Facebook, or even whether or not to go in the ocean…Read More from Sound Strategy: Think about “how we decide how we decide” to avoid extreme outcomes

by Clark Twiddy

Sometimes the most important things don’t play out in the headlines – or if they do, they’re buried back behind something else that’s more engaging in the short-term. Headlines, it turns out, can obscure something just as easily as they can highlight something. It’s the lack of headlines – with no negativity implied – around…Read More from Sound Strategy: Thanks to our ECU Health staff for making Greater Outer Banks healthier

by Clark Twiddy

Sound Strategy has spent a good deal of time this year reflecting on housing; surely, there is no other topic across our region so accessible to our residents than the availability of affordable housing (with the possible exception of education or healthcare).   In seeking to learn and share as much as possible about the topic,…Read More from Sound Strategy: Solving the Greater Outer Banks housing crisis requires economic incentives, regional approach

by Clark Twiddy

As the Labor Day weekend comes into view, we’re reminded of the passage of time through yet another busy summer season across our region. In thinking about the future, this is a perfect time of year to think about what we’ve learned from this season while the lessons are fresh and how we can use…Read More from Sound Strategy: Learning from the summer 2023 shortage of workforce housing, labor before next season

by Clark Twiddy

As a region, much of our planning time rightly is spent thinking about the future and how to best collaboratively shape it in a way that reflects what we’d actually like our future to be. Of course, it’s imperative to envision the future and equally as impossible to predict it however tempting it may be…Read More from Sound Strategy: Crafting strategy more about seeing the present than predicting the future

by Clark Twiddy

One of the highlights of the summer season across the Greater Outer Banks is the welcome and exciting return of the offshore fishing tournament season. While Sound Strategy is the first to highlight the importance of the visitor economy as our key economic driver, that focus isn’t meant to obscure any of the vibrancy of…Read More from Sound Strategy: Offshore fishing tournament season one of summer’s highlights on the Outer Banks

by Clark Twiddy

It should come as sweet music to North Carolinians to hear this week about once again being recognized as America’s top state for business in CNBC’s annual rankings. This is the second year in a row our remarkable combination of workforce quality, educational resources, and a vibrant economy has put us on top in what…Read More from Sound Strategy: Much to celebrate, learn across Greater Outer Banks from N.C. ranking tops for business again

by Clark Twiddy