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…

Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties. Its participants were directors, heads of departments, and managers from a dozen or so offices of Silesian city administrations responsible for preparing these strategies and for spatial planning.

This time I lectured in Malaysia, at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. My open lecture on local government and state authorities in Poland was supposed to last an hour and a half, but it ran for three hours, because there were so many questions and so much discussion with the students.

Recently, I lectured at National Taiwan University on Polish public strategies. While talking with professors and students and visiting state-of-the-art laboratories, I also learned about Taiwanese strategies.

The Brazilian university Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais asked me to give an online seminar for PhD students and professors entitled ‘Entrepreneurship and Local Development – the Example of Wrocław and the EU’

If you’re planning for a year – sow grain.
If you’re planning for ten years – plant trees. If you’re planning for a hundred years – educate children.

After my lectures at University of the Azores, I barely got out ahead of Hurricane Gabrielle, while the islands were bracing for the worst. How does it work there?

While recently lecturing at The University of Madeira on development strategies for Polish municipalities, I said that many of them are eager to grow tourism. The students replied that on their island that’s no longer the case everywhere and that most of them feel quite the opposite.

They say that a good plan is half the battle. And a bad one? I would say that it is the beginning of failure. A bad plan, instead of leading to the right goal, leads to wasting human energy, time, money, lost opportunities, defeats in competition and even disasters.

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

In educating future local government leaders, it is important to provide them with reliable knowledge, show what and how it can be achieved using it, and then practice its application together. However, it is equally important to get to know them with contemporary leaders, show their commitment, strategic thinking and their ambitions in developing cities and villages. This is necessary for them to believe that it is possible and worth living all this.

“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.

Recently, while conducting training on development strategies for authorities and top management of the Czernica Commune Office, I presented my prototype AI model based on GPT-4o supporting strategic governance of the development of cities/communes.

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

Some municipal leaders (and not only them), when talking about implemented investments and other projects, often emphasize how much they cost or will cost, and ignore other aspects.

An interview with Leonel Correia da Silva, Mayor of Câmara de Lobos, one of the municipalities of Madeira, made me realize that the rapid influx of tourist traffic&investment can be a challenge even on remote, oceanic islands, as long as they are attractive to the world and sufficiently connected to it.

This time I trained in strategy the authorities and top management of the Pielgrzymka Commune. Welcoming, committed people, with whom I enjoyed working. And we had a good laugh at some examples from local government life 🙂 And how is development created here?

Training on the construction and implementation of the development strategy of communes, i.e. on the strategic governence of the development of communes, is the most important training for their authorities.

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.