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The jobs only you can do – @thisissethsblog
A great observation by Seth Godin: “One of the milestones every entrepreneur passes is when she stops thinking of people she hires as expensive (“I could do that job for free”) and starts thinking of them as cheap (“This frees … Continue reading
Echoes through time: Do not press an enemy at bay
“Do not press An enemy at bay.” Sun-Tzu (551 – 496 BC), The Art of War
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Working from home infographic
Here’s an interesting infographic from telecommuting recruitment specialists staff.com:
The four horsemen of Mediocrity – Seth Godin
Seth suggests: Deniability Helplessness Contempt Fear … all too familiar in organisations around the world. Read more, here.
Technology, jobs, education and government – The Economist
Another essential article in last week’s Economist discusses the scale of the coming impact as technology impacts the world of work as never before. Anyone interested in strategic planning and/or government policy will get value from this. It does a … Continue reading
Empowering @projectline’s people
An interesting piece on Inc.com about how Projectline empowers its staff to take ownership of their development. In a nutshell, each person has an annual budget of $1,500 and agrees how to spend it with their line manager: anything from … Continue reading
Interim Contracts
Life can be fraught for anyone on the sovereign professional path. Issues around legal status and contracts are a regular headache and interim managers – whose status is too often an unnecessarily grey area in the minds of hirers, commentators … Continue reading
Mind of a Freelancer
HP Business Answers, via 365 Addison Avenue, has this great infographic on freelancers. Matthew’s angle is how valuable a resource freelancers can be for fast-growing small businesses: they are agile, flexible and can bring short-term “point solutions” of experience and … Continue reading
Workplace of the Future–not (just) an office building
Future Workplace = 1 person x 6 devices @ 2/3 desk Citrix – long time supporter and enabler of future/mobile/flexible working – reckons that, by 2020, organisations will need just seven desks for every ten workers (6/10 in the UK, … Continue reading
eMigration, a Path from Austerity?
This piece from Elaine Pofeldt set me thinking. She joins some interesting dots in her piece on The Gig Economy’s Answer to the European Debacle on Forbes.com. In some of the hardest hit economies in Europe, people are taking their … Continue reading
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