WorldChanging has been one of my favorite blogs since being introduced to it by Jonathan Star of GBN. (GBN was the firm that helped us with the scenario planning work that led to the creation of TechFutures).

But I owe a big debt of gratitude to George Nemeth for his post today on Professor Sandy Kristin Piderit at Case, who mentions WorldChanging in her argument that measuring the additional “dollars and cents” MBA students earn post-degree is utter non-sense.

Yesterday I wrote in response to a post on BFD about how more and more people are coming to value money as just part of the equation–not the sole or even, in many cases, the most important measurement of success or happiness, and that we in Northeast Ohio needed to take stock of the full range of things that contribute to our wealth as a region.

Money matters, but it isn’t everything. There are places where you’d certainly think it was all that mattered, but one of the reasons the goal we’ve set for the region is to be one of the top ten places to live, learn, work, and invest is precisely because money alone does not a successful, prosperous region make. Call it a necessary but not sufficient piece of the pie. And yes, we need more here–especially investment capital to support new business development–but not at the expense of losing the very human things that make us distinctive as a region.

Thanks, George. And thank you, Professor Piderit.