The Poland’s Acts on Commune Self-Government and Voivodeship Self-Government regulate the procedure for preparing development strategies for these tiers of government and specify their required content. The Act on County Self-Government, however, remains silent on county development strategies… This does not mean that a county strategy is unnecessary.

I am pleased that, thanks to my experience in developing strategies for many cities and municipalities, I participated in the work on this breakthrough plan as a member of the ZSK Scientific Council, representing Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.

Simply adopting a commune development strategy in compliance with legal requirements is not enough in Poland. The strategy must be substantively sound, and it must be preceded by a good diagnosis. Otherwise, there will be many problems…

I have been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Integrated Railway Network Project (#ZSK).

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt once said, and although not all the famous sayings of US presidents are inspiring, especially today, this one is worth remembering and thinking about.

I am training my artificial intelligence model based on GPT-4o, whose task will be to advise municipal/city authorities in making strategic decisions.

Thanks to my experience in local & regional development strategies, this year I was appointed for the second time as an expert of the European Research Executive Agency.

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” said the Red Queen in “Alice in Wonderland” by L. Carroll, a lecturer of the Oxford University. And she was very right.

When in February 2023 I was finishing a two-day training on strategic governance of city development for the authorities and management of Miasto Jelenia Góra, the Mayor Jerzy Łużniak asked me: “Will you support us in building a new Strategy?”

One of the conditions for developing a good strategy is to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, especially leaders and decision-makers.