I'm beginning to understand that for a community to prepare itself to be a 21st century community, that it requires a different level of leadership. That is, the leadership to coordinate and the leadership to be a catalyst to make things happen between the public and the private sector. In our state, we are in pursuit of hightech jobs. We have noted that we have a particular geographic advantage in that we are only an hour from Silicon Valley. In fact, you can get from Salt Lake City to Silicon Valley faster than it takes to drive across Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley is a boiling pot of ideas and money.
We have a workforce growing at twice the national average. We have the capacity to become a growout location for these companies. This experience has taught me that the most important thing I can do in my role as governor is to bring people together. Change is going to happen. These are grand, shaping forces.