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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly difficult, and while many have strong technical skills, the art and science of running a business are often somewhat harder to master. “In addition to business model innovation, practitioners stress the importance of social capital for entrepreneurs. . Skills for scaling.

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The Importance Of Place For Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

It’s widely accepted that entrepreneurship is vital for economic vitality both in terms of the new innovations that come to market and the jobs that are created. Location plays such a fundamental role because so much of our social capital is location specific. Social capital. Supporting ambitions.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I examined how successful society was being in helping people to prepare for the future of work. While the educated middle classes were fervent devotees of innovations such as MOOCs, the working classes were most definitely not. Social capital. Providing support.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

Beyond alarming questions of what is "fair" to the innovators themselves, few have considered how these human capital controls might impact the quality and quantity of innovation--and ultimately economic growth. We have all been trained that the more control we have, the more successful we will be.

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Elizabeth Pieters accepted into Forbes Human Resources Council

N2Growth Blog

Liz joins other Forbes Human Resources Council members, who are hand-selected, to become part of a curated network of successful peers and get access to a variety of exclusive benefits and resources, including the opportunity to submit thought leadership articles and short tips on industry-related topics for publishing on Forbes.com.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." Success recognition.