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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. angelabisignano Good post Mike!

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Why You Should Bring a Startup Founder Mindset To Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

When I moved here to Portland in 2010 I wasn’t really looking for those folks – I had just gotten out of a long-time corporate career, mostly in the Cable TV business, and was looking to settle into a nice business/leadership consulting practice whilst I kept writing my blog and my book.

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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

Not only are high profile entrepreneurs banging the drum for the lifestyle, but a vast swathe of accelerators and incubators have emerged to help startups to grow. By contrast, those who became self-employed in the hunt for either better career progression or job satisfaction tended to achieve those things.

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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Kendall Square and Silicon Valley are the best known, but hardly the only, places where we see rich interactions among serial entrepreneurs, VCs, law firms specializing in ventures, university technology transfer offices, and providers of physical incubator space.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

” Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that to TechCrunch in 2010 , but the line from then to now is the graph of our growing disenchantment with tech. Giving students a shorter pathway to their career through bootcamps, incubators, and accelerators seems to be a logical next step.