The document discusses the importance of soft skills for startup businesses and economic development. It notes that while government incentives focus on startups, many struggle at the second stage of growth due to a lack of soft skills like communication, critical thinking, and leadership. Specifically, it argues that economic development strategies are doomed to fail if they do not also support the development of these important soft skills through training, mentoring and professional development.

1. Spark to Flame to Fire

2. Why

3. Spark
• Recent Research
• Start up rate on sharp Decline
• High Growth Rate young firms on decline 2000
• What worked , What Didn’t

4. Spark
• Gov’t incentives
• Start ups engines for Growth
• What’s Going Wrong

5. Flame
Where’s the Growth
2nd stage fails to grow

6. Flame
• McFarland
• Less time running
• More leading coaching

7. Flame
Gardening not changing Paridime

8. Flame
• From Society of logic to Big Picture Capabilities

9. Flame
• Human Capital Development
• Jeff Colvin
• High Value skills- Soft Quote.

10. • Soft Skills
• Needed for change
Hogshead
Econ garden misses 85% only technical
• Robert Katz
• Economic Gardening only focuses on First two

11. • Why Fail
• Corporation economics instead
• Forget it is a community of Human Individuals
• Hogshead
• Human Engineering

12. Flame
• Jobs- Quote
• Need creativity thu discussions
• Not email

13. Drucker
• Relationship Worker

14. Fire
• Overall
• Interview entrepeneurs
• Self awareness
• Brutally honest
• Critical thinking
• Leadership

15. Skills Needed to Suceed
• Self Awareness
• Communication
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Leadership and management skills

16. • How to Develop Soft Skills
• Training
• Mentoring
• Value the Change
• Conscious capitalism

17. • Economic Development
• Doomed to fail
• Without Soft Skill Development

18. Soft Skills
• How to Achieve
• Mentoring
• Professional Development

19. • Communication
• It’s All About Relationships