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Sound Strategy: Ash Wednesday Storm doc good reminder not to sleep on our recent hurricane season luck

September 21st, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories  · Weather
Sound Strategy: Ash Wednesday Storm doc good reminder not to sleep on our recent hurricane season luck

When it comes to developing a strategy, there is a reason certainty never approaches 100 – there are some things, it turns out, that we just can’t anticipate no matter how hard we try. As an example, we’ve just gotten plum lucky over the past few years (since 2019’s Dorian, really) when it comes to…Read More from Sound Strategy: Ash Wednesday Storm doc good reminder not to sleep on our recent hurricane season luck

Sound Strategy: Think about “how we decide how we decide” to avoid extreme outcomes

September 7th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Think about “how we decide how we decide” to avoid extreme outcomes

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

Sound Strategy: Greater Outer Banks housing issues will mean fewer employees, longer commutes, higher prices

September 4th, 2023  · Commentary  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Greater Outer Banks housing issues will mean fewer employees, longer commutes, higher prices

Let’s start this week’s conversation with both a sense of the passage of time – Happy Labor Day out there – and a relatively welcome sigh of relief given Idalia’s potential. Stay safe out there! But to our point. Strategy is all about making imperfect decisions about the future, and as we consider the future…Read More from Sound Strategy: Greater Outer Banks housing issues will mean fewer employees, longer commutes, higher prices

Sound Strategy: Thanks to our ECU Health staff for making Greater Outer Banks healthier

August 24th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Thanks to our ECU Health staff for making Greater Outer Banks healthier

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

Sound Strategy: Solving the Greater Outer Banks housing crisis requires economic incentives, regional approach

August 17th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Solving the Greater Outer Banks housing crisis requires economic incentives, regional approach

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

Sound Strategy: Learning from the summer 2023 shortage of workforce housing, labor before next season

August 12th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Learning from the summer 2023 shortage of workforce housing, labor before next season

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

Sound Strategy: Crafting strategy more about seeing the present than predicting the future

August 3rd, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Crafting strategy more about seeing the present than predicting the future

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

Politics Podcast from WUNC: Clark Twiddy on Sen. Marc Basnight’s legacy building the Outer Banks

July 28th, 2023  · Multimedia  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Politics Podcast from WUNC: Clark Twiddy on Sen. Marc Basnight’s legacy building the Outer Banks

Before Phil Berger was considered the most powerful politician in the state, Democratic Sen. Marc Basnight of Manteo held the same position from 1993 to 2010. Basnight, who died in 2020, was a big advocate for the Outer Banks, and he used his role to help build the tourism juggernaut we have today in the…Read More from Politics Podcast from WUNC: Clark Twiddy on Sen. Marc Basnight’s legacy building the Outer Banks

Sound Strategy: Offshore fishing tournament season one of summer’s highlights on the Outer Banks

July 20th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Offshore fishing tournament season one of summer’s highlights on the Outer Banks

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

Sound Strategy: Much to celebrate, learn across Greater Outer Banks from N.C. ranking tops for business again

July 13th, 2023  · Sound Strategy  · Top Stories
Sound Strategy: Much to celebrate, learn across Greater Outer Banks from N.C. ranking tops for business again

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

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Sound Strategy Top Stories Weather September 21st, 2023

Sound Strategy: Ash Wednesday Storm doc good reminder not to sleep on our recent hurricane season luck

When it comes to developing a strategy, there is a reason certainty never approaches 100 – there are some things, it turns out, that we just can’t anticipate no matter how hard we try. As an example, we’ve just gotten plum lucky over the past few years (since 2019’s Dorian, really) when it comes to…Read More from Sound Strategy: Ash Wednesday Storm doc good reminder not to sleep on our recent hurricane season luck

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Sound Strategy Top Stories September 7th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Think about “how we decide how we decide” to avoid extreme outcomes

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

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Commentary Sound Strategy Top Stories September 4th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Greater Outer Banks housing issues will mean fewer employees, longer commutes, higher prices

Let’s start this week’s conversation with both a sense of the passage of time – Happy Labor Day out there – and a relatively welcome sigh of relief given Idalia’s potential. Stay safe out there! But to our point. Strategy is all about making imperfect decisions about the future, and as we consider the future…Read More from Sound Strategy: Greater Outer Banks housing issues will mean fewer employees, longer commutes, higher prices

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Sound Strategy Top Stories August 24th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Thanks to our ECU Health staff for making Greater Outer Banks healthier

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

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Sound Strategy Top Stories August 17th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Solving the Greater Outer Banks housing crisis requires economic incentives, regional approach

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

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Sound Strategy Top Stories August 12th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Learning from the summer 2023 shortage of workforce housing, labor before next season

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

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Sound Strategy Top Stories August 3rd, 2023

Sound Strategy: Crafting strategy more about seeing the present than predicting the future

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

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Politics Podcast from WUNC: Clark Twiddy on Sen. Marc Basnight’s legacy building the Outer Banks

Before Phil Berger was considered the most powerful politician in the state, Democratic Sen. Marc Basnight of Manteo held the same position from 1993 to 2010. Basnight, who died in 2020, was a big advocate for the Outer Banks, and he used his role to help build the tourism juggernaut we have today in the…Read More from Politics Podcast from WUNC: Clark Twiddy on Sen. Marc Basnight’s legacy building the Outer Banks

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Sound Strategy Top Stories July 20th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Offshore fishing tournament season one of summer’s highlights on the Outer Banks

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

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Sound Strategy Top Stories July 13th, 2023

Sound Strategy: Much to celebrate, learn across Greater Outer Banks from N.C. ranking tops for business again

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