Jim Gilmore
Strategic Horizons

Jim Gilmore lives in Shaker Hts, and his business, Strategic Horizons, is based in Aurora, but he is much better known nationally by some of the largest firms in the world who are their clients. With the slogan, "Helping executives see the world differently," Jim and his partner Joe Pine host the annual ThinkAbout conference , where they charge $2450 a head, (and a few hundred more if you show up a day early to help them set up and work!), and lead participants in a "Learning Excursion" to Nashville, simultaneously one of the world's most authentic and fake cities in the world. While there, they visited 4 different musical venues, such as Tootsie's, a down-and-dirty (i.e. "authentic") nightclub, where everyone actually plays cover songs written by other artists. on the other hand, they went to the Wild Horse, a corporate-owned chain, with artists doing original material. Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready met Jim Gilmore at Legacy Village, a paragon of the real/fake polarity, and they discuss the book, the conference in Nashville, and how Gilmore feels about the authenticity of his hometown of Cleveland. Moments later, mall security asked us to leave. The book is now available here See book review in the 11.21.07 issue of Cool Cleveland here. .http://www.StrategicHorizons.com

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