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Richer Than We Think

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By Bernard F. Miller KC, ICD.D  Nova Scotia recorded its best GDP growth on record in 2021 — by deliberately not focusing on GDP growth. Here is what that means for the way we measure, report, and govern economic success. In March 1968, Robert F. Kennedy stood before a crowd at the University of Kansas and delivered one of the most enduring critiques of economic measurement ever put to a...

What a Slow Growth Law FirmTaught Me About Nova Scotia’s Economy

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A concept from a Harvard Business Review article transformed a stagnant professional services firm. The same logic — put the people who do the work first, and growth follows — may be exactly what Nova Scotia’s economic policy has been missing. By Bernard F. Miller KC, ICD.D   |   Contributing to A Better Place Sometime around 2009, I was managing partner of a law...

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