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…
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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….
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…
Ideas and Infrastructure – When They Roll Their Eyes, Roll Your Ideas
Most people think if you have a visionary idea and no business plan, corporate structure, financing, and talent pool, you’re an unrealistic dreamer destined to fail. Their focus is on respectability, not innovation. Then they’re surprised when an idea comes seemingly out of nowhere and rapidly constitutes the next big thing. But anyone who has…