What can a corporate Human Resources administrator, manager, executive do right now to make the company more competitive AND simultaneously address the jobless recovery? The latter, addressing the jobless recovery, is not philanthropic. It is a side-effect of higher performing organizations. If you haven’t done so already, it will be helpful to develop an understanding […]
The role-based organization
Want to know what the future of work looks like? It’s a role-based organization. It’s not a rigid hierarchy where job titles and authority are handed down from position holders above. You may ask, how can this be the future? Won’t we end up with disorganized mess? Hardly. This is the future because it’s more […]
Pay For Time
Most of our economy is based on pay for time and that is inefficient. As corporate clients, we do not want to pay for time, we want to pay for results. And yet we simply pay for time out of habit. Employees are paid to be present at the designated place of work for certain […]
I said no to a great job.
I just couldn’t do it. To advance through more interviews and probably a job offer, I had to agree to become a regular full-time employee. It wasn’t for my lack of trying to alleviate concerns. “We can make any commitment contractual: re-coup your training investment, protect intellectual property, ensure I stay long term.”, I said. […]
The New Rules of Work – Free Agents are the Future
We did a story over at the Rules of Work blog (where I’m editor) on the latest change – which is acknowledging that the “Rules of Work” have changed”. It’s a great validation of the Free Agent Source model, so here’s a summary of some of the consensus rules the article extracts from the conversation: […]