Whether you are leading a start-up, your own company as an owner / operator, or a large enterprise, we all have what amounts to a binary decision for assembling teams. 1) Hire permanent full-time employees. This works for most positions in large companies. But it is inflexible, like owning and operating your own factory. 2) …
“My main question is about fit.” he said as we started our call. I was giving a reference for someone who had worked on my team. “I want to be sure he fits with the team we already have.” My emotions sank. I’m thinking, “Here we go.” Out of the starting gate, fit has trumped …
In our companies and in our lives we have people around us whose main aspiration is economic survival. For various reasons (the situation or the person or both) economic survival and protecting one’s own job is the goal. I get that. It’s normal. Sometimes that goal is pursued with quiet “under the radar” tip-toe steps …
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 …
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 …
