Off to a Flying Start
Is it just me? But this New Year, decade even, seems to have gotten off to a flying start. January can be a bit of a quiet month but not this one. Our first conference of the year was in San Diego and it seems like a long time ago now – the sunny weather certainly does anyway. We were producing Historians TV with the American Historical Association which is both fun and quite a challenge. How do you sum up Barack Obama’s political ideology and legacy in a minute and a half!
We’re busy now making programmes on the green economy in Washington DC and next week working on the Local Government Association’s Climate Change conference in Liverpool. Interesting stuff and certainly makes you think and I think I can spot a theme there!
In between we’re developing a couple of new formats. One in particular is grabbing our attention at the moment. We’ve just started filming the Local Government Leadership Challenge. In short it pitches two teams of aspirant chief executives together to work on challenges to find our leaders of the future. The first of these programmes will be on the Local Government Channel website next week and I’m really looking forward to see how they do.
So we’ve certainly hit the ground running. And as I pause for breath I can’t help thinking about how this translates into the wider economy. Certainly there’s a degree of optimism going around – a new bounce into people’s step. But whilst the pace is frenetic it isn’t guaranteed to continue. Everything seems very short term. It’s as if we know there are clouds on the horizon and we’re stopping ourselves from getting too excited. Let’s just hope someone got his weather forecast wrong as well!
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