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Encouraging Rural Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

The authors propose that fostering entrepreneurship represents a viable avenue for driving economic growth in rural regions. Encouraging rural entrepreneurship is commonly seen as crucial to help areas develop. A recent study from the University of Texas at Arlington explores how it can be encouraged in rural Texas.

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

We find that age indeed predicts success, and sharply, but in the opposite way that many propose. “These findings are consistent with theories in which key entrepreneurial resources (such as human capital, financial capital, and social capital) accumulate with age, ” the researchers explain.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. So Jim instead proposed a small experiment. Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees. Further Reading.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

In particular, we propose an architecture for pricing digital goods that is intended to move the exchange between seller and buyer from the transactional to the relational. This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach.

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Manage Your Time Without Annoying Your Coworkers

Harvard Business Review

When things are going well, you have social capital to spend,” says Dattner. Propose several techniques to see which will work best for you and your coworkers. You also want to be sure that you’re well positioned to request the change to your routine. You want to be performing well and be in people’s good graces.

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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Social capital also counts. In business, as in love, you earn trust. Once earned, you’re a fool to take it for granted.

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What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?

Harvard Business Review

Gratton and Scott also propose managing a range of assets that go well beyond the financial, although underfunded pensions will be a key challenge for almost everyone, everywhere. For individuals, longer lives will mean that we are likely to reinvent ourselves many times over.

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