Economic Gardening is a process of economic and community development that works on the premise that sustainable development starts from where a community is at. Everything that the community requires for its own development is already present in the community - intelligence, passion, commitment and motivation. Development happens by nurturing these resources and helping them to flourish. Economic gardening is about looking for, and building on, the assets that the community already has. It is an asset based approach that seeks to create jobs and opportunities by supporting companies, actual and latent entrepreneurs that are already in the community.

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Welcome to the very first post of the Sirolli Institute Weblog. We have just completed a planning meeting in San Francisco and are working hard on the development of the Institute.

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Just before Christmas 2006, Jeff Randall, a leading Industrial Correspondent in the UK, wrote an article outlining the need for fresh policies to reduce the number of people in the UK who are fit to work - but instead 'choose' to live on state welfare. The language that Randall uses to describe the problem is powerful.

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