How about Hobbs, Indiana; it isn't that far from Indianapolis
International. Our club considered buying a farm there
as a place to operate. grin

As long as we're playing this game, and it really is
just a game, howzabout Dayton? One of the largest
club operations in the country is located there. If
Dayton airport doesn't qualify as a place to fly in
commercially, then Cincinnati isn't far away. More
centrally located among the directors, governors, etc.



At 16:18 19 September 2006, Papa3 wrote:
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Really, there are a couple of issues underlying this:

- Availability of a deep enough talent pool to allow
for multiple,
qualified candidates to be sourced locally.
- Barring a local talent pool, the desirability of
the environment as
a place to relocate a family. This is a way to broaden
the talent
pool.
- Accessiblity for both planned and unplanned visits.

A thought on this last point. Over the last 7 years,
I've been part of
a team which started up a global company. Despite
extensive use of
phone, video, Web meetings, etc. there's still no substitute
for
face-to-face interaction. I've noticed that the ability
to get an
executive to visit any location is almost directly
proportional to the
quality of the airline service. I'm sure it's the
same for our
board members, who are, for the most part, extremely
busy individuals .
Even if we do move toward more of a 'virtual organization'
(which I
fully support), we still ought to be in a position
to drop in (planned
or unplanned) on HQ (even if HQ is just 5,000 square
feet in some
office complex). As a straw model, I'd say that any
location we
choose must be within a 1 hour drive of a major airport
(defined as
one having direct service from any of the 20 or so
major hubs in the
US). There's obviously a lot more to site selection
than that, but
it's certainly one of the knockout criteria in my book.

P3