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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk

Harvard Business Review

Right now incubators such as Y Combinator and TechStars are performing this task for the best existing entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurs meet certain milestones, but their business still fails, they should be guaranteed placement in firms in need of entrepreneurial leadership. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation.

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Get the Mentoring Equation Right

Harvard Business Review

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. If you know far more than the mentee, and the expertise he is looking for is in your sweet spot, very little energy may be required. This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

” This limits what your team is able to accomplish as well as individual team members’ careers. ” He suggests asking a colleague from another department or division to sit in on one of your team meetings and “give you feedback on where you’re focusing your energy and attention.”

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The Fringe Beats the Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

It is also an entertaining case study in the power of grassroots innovation and open-source creativity, a positive symbol of how unchecked human energy, shaped by a few simple rules, can unleash truly amazing results. But you can make your career. You rarely make money in Edinburgh," Gudgin says.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. In the last six years the federal government funded 56 cluster initiatives in areas from green energy to defense contracting.