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Remarks by Bruce D. Alexander - Community Leadership Honoree.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 October 2009-Yale University: Remarks by Bruce D. Alexander - Community Leadership Honoree(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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New Haven, Conn. - I am greatly honored and appreciative of this acknowledgement, but it is of course a recognition of shared accomplishment. The work I do on behalf of the University would not be possible without the resources and support provided by Rick Levin and the trustees, and our successes are the result of the labors of Rick and many other of my colleagues at Yale.

Our city has made great progress in recent years and an essential ingredient that has allowed that to happen is a collaboration amongst the institutional, governmental, and business leadership of our community, many of whom are in the room today. I recall giving a talk here many years ago at the request of the then Mayor Ben Dilieto. I said that I had worked on projects in cities all over America as a real estate developer, and that in my experience what separated successful communities from less successful ones was less a matter of who had the most opportunities or greatest problems, but rather who had the most committed and adept civic leadership. By adept I mean competent and creative leadership, and most importantly collaborative leadership, that is a group of political, business, and institutional leaders who work together for common purpose to improve the community. I include the media as important in this coalition, prodding and questioning when appropriate, not for the sake of creating and elevating controversy to achieve profits, but...

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