In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Jason Ball, President and CEO of the five-star accredited Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, shares what four cities across four very different markets taught him about why some communities win the talent and investment competition and others don't. From a small manufacturing city in Kansas to a Sunbelt boomtown in South Dakota to the first suburb north of Austin, and now back home to Lincoln, Nebraska, Jason has had a front-row seat to the policy decisions, infrastructure investments, and community leadership choices that separate thriving economies from ones that slowly hollow out. He makes a compelling and practical case that small business owners are the most credible and most consistently absent voice in the policy conversations that shape their own futures.

The conversation covers the three questi ...