“ If we do what we’ve always done, we’ll get what we’ve always got. “
4 Options for Hiring People
OPTION 1: As a traditional employer, you put people to work for your company because you need them now. But then: You’re responsible to them, one way or another, as the company evolves. The cost of everything that goes into maintaining their traditional employee status is high, even spread out over multiple employees. The commitment…
Gone in 6 Hours: Startup Weekend 2012
Feb 2012 LA Startup Weekend registration is Jan 16 12pm (Monday). Tickets sold out in only 6 hours last time! Event will be at Coloft in Santa Monica – 920 Santa Monica Blvd.
The End of the World is Here
This is the infamous year. The world as we know it is over, it’s out, it’s falling into the abyss of obsolescence. Ordinary people are crashing the gates, almost exclusively over freedom and work, and ordinary industries and companies are just crashing. It doesn’t take a Nostradamus to recognize that traditional employment, at least in…
Decline of Executive Power
Today was huge. I call it the Verizon Event. For a few years Daniel and I have been talking non-stop about changes in traditional employment. We discuss the social and economic drivers behind those changes. But not so much about corporations. I have written about the eventual end of traditional hierarchical organizational structure in modern corporations….
Values Driven Startups
GigaOm has a good article on the “values-driven startup“. “The values-driven startup operates according to a set of clearly-defined values, aligned with an inspiring vision and strategy, that drive people’s behaviors and decisions every day.” The article cites Automatic and Eventbrite, both of which we use at Free Agent Source, as well as a company…
87% of Recruiters Hit LinkedIn First
“Eighty-seven percent of recruiters visit LinkedIn first to source candidates and search for qualified job leads to fill open requisitions.” – smartrecruiters.com
ECM, FAS, and Small Business 2.0
What they do: Earth class mail receives all your mail for you and lets you see your envelopes online (or on your mobile), with the option to scan contents to PDF, shred securely, or send you the original. The point is that you no longer have the hassles of receiving or opening mail, and you…
Wisdom of Crowds and Misfits
Wisdom of Crowds This is a superb hour long interview with the author of “The Wisdom of Crowds” and it gets at the heart of how ordinary people are the repository of effective judgment in a lot of areas. The discussion of Google culture as an example of that is splendid. This comes from the…
What Floating Education says about Traditional Employment
Traditional education may be a dinosaur since the rise of Google. People point to enrollment stats to say it ain’t so, but this misses the fact that traditional universities have had to radically alter their existing premises in order to adapt, and offer courses in ways they claimed, early on, were a threat to education…
What Cloud Software Says for Hiring People
Cloud computing is a leaner approach, a more agile approach and a greener approach, than installing stuff to hard drives and servers, keeping it updated, secure, and running smoothly. [This post] observes that ”the majority of data center power use comes from non-IT companies running their own data centers less efficiently. ” and cites [google’s own report on how…
Heinz and Boeing on the Employer Pushcar
Heinz is announcing layoffs, plant closings, and price increases in a weak economy with rising ingredient costs. One could argue that the cost of employing people is not really the drain they say it is – not anymore. It’s not employment cost, it’s employer cost . There are lots of alternative ways to put people…
