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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

It was a time in which there was a lot of innovation around new educational opportunities, but early evidence showed that most consumers of these opportunities were those already well placed to cope with the changes being seen across society. Social capital.

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar tales emerge from teams as diverse as Bill Clinton’s election team, the early Apple team and even the scientists that converged on Los Alamos to create the atomic bomb. At the heart of their hypothesis is the notion that older adults have a variety of passions, and that these passions can feed into new ideas and innovations.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. Cons: PMs have less exposure to company strategy and are just one of many voices of the customer.

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What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?

Harvard Business Review

He is at the very beginning of his career: exploring the world, delaying any kind of emotional or physical settling down that, a generation ago, would have been the norm at his age. Transformational assets: Self-knowledge, diverse networks, openness to experience. My son, who is in his mid-20s, is pretty typical.

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