How to Set Up a Think Tank of Your Own

By Lance Winslow


Have you ever considered opening your own local think tank? Why not, perhaps you are a smart person and have many smart friends too. Why not get together once a week and discuss the issues of our time, and find solutions to local problems in your region? May you and your friends believe you can make a breakthrough and really conquer a huge challenge in our present period? Why am I so sure you can do this?
Well, we run a Net-Centric type Think Tank with many small close knit groups which operate in their own geographical areas solving local problems, inventing, and discussion national and international issues. Sometimes the local groups borrow specific expertise from other think tank chapters as needed.
Of course, if you set up your own local think tank, perhaps you might have professors at a local college that might be willing to help answer questions when you get stuck? Maybe a local city council will ask you to help them or form a committee to tackle a problem there?
You know, although they would be different than the group you set up, our groups often come up with an innovation and end up breaking away into sub-groups to start businesses, thus we act as an incubator as they then spin off. My job is to screen folks, thru natural email conversations, then refer them to the sub-groups that are working on projects or to a local chapter. Or help them set up a local chapter if none is already existing. It's actually a pretty fun.
If you set up your own local think tank maybe you could recruit people, set up meetings, and really make some progress. Maybe the conversations and debates you have at your meetings could tie-in technology, common sense, efficiency, society, economics, and politics into solutions for water, transportation, communication, distribution, language, money flows, military, infrastructure, etc. It's pretty fun. You'd probably enjoy it. Just a thought, think on it.
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