Everything starts with a vision … and get accomplished with champions. Because Carlisle’s champions had the vision, tenacity, unselfishmess and focus to steer the initiative, Carlisle emerged as “Strongest Town.”

Here is the “Strong Towns” approach:

• Relies on small, incremental investments (little bets) instead of large, transformative projects,

• Emphasizes resiliency of result over efficiency of execution,

• Is designed to adapt to feedback,

• Is inspired by bottom/up action (chaotic but smart) and not top/down systems (orderly but dumb),

• Seeks to conduct as much of life as possible at a personal scale, and

• Is obsessive about accounting for its revenues, expenses, assets and long term liabilities (do the math).

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