I spent last evening in a Fireside Chat session with alumni and current participants in Leadership Calgary.  Many thanks to Cassandra Litke for organizing it and to those who came out to hear about what we're doing at Calgary Arts Development, and the things I've learned in the startup process.  It was a great discussion, and I hope we'll continue it.

As I tend to do in situations like this, I rattled off several authors, articles and books to read.  Here's my list:

- Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization
- various authors, Cluetrain Manifesto (www.cluetrain.com)
- Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/)
- Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley (ci-sv.org)
- Tom Peters, The Professional Service Firm 33 (www.tompeters.com)
- also, check out Seth Godin and Squidoo (sethgodin.typepad.com and www.squidoo.com)

Thats all I can remember... let me know if I left any out!