Chapter 1Adopt the Right Aspirations

“We are the leaders we have been waiting for,” insisted a McKinsey & Company director in a recent report viewing California's future through a triple-bottom-line lens.1

That remains to be seen, but both he and the other five hundred or so economic leaders who attended the 2013 California Economic Summit, on which that report was based, understand that nowadays there is not just one California, but at least two: one coastal and fairly wealthy, one inland and poorer. As elsewhere around the globe, there are worlds of haves and of have-nots. Now, for better or worse, like it or not, transformational change is coming. “Our job as leaders,” explained Gavin Newsom, lieutenant-governor of California and former ...

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