Traditional strategic planning starts from problematic assumptions about how we know - attempting to predict certainty, or at least high probability, for business relevant futures. This article suggests starting from uncertainty, based on the metaphor of emergent paradigms (self-organizing...

This paper presents an updated cost-benefit analysis of the High/Scope Perry preschool Program, using data on individuals aged 40. Children were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. Program costs are compared against treatment impacts on educational resources, earnings, criminal...

The phenomena of an aging population, changing social and economic circumstances, as well as the existential necessity of mid-life changes form the background to this investigation. Though statistics indicate that there are only a few who have considered entrepreneurship as a desirable and...