A good friend who runs a professional services firm told me with some shock that his most profitable employee is a single mother who works part time. So this year, she got a big bonus. Despite working for someone else, she feels recognized and rewarded. And by being part of a larger organization, she gets to have more time with her kids. This sort of story is rare – but it doesn’t have to be.
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The Siren Song of Securities: The Perils of Expert Networks & The Risks of Insider Trading | The National Law Review
Expert networks are different than expert witness listings. I am not a member of any expert networks as defined by this article in The National Law Review.
The Degree Is Doomed
Interesting perspective. You may agree, you may disagree. But in either case your thinking will be challenged.
Top 10 Free Medical Apps – Physician’s Weekly
Top 10 Free Medical Apps | Physician’s Weekly.
I have one of the ten apps listed on my phone. At my age I consider this to be a little victory.
Never Say Goodbye to a Great Employee
This is crap but you should read it anyway. Groupthink alert.
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams: How to Fail Your Way to Success – US News and World Report
Your best bet is to have a system for acquiring new and complementary skills over your lifetime while always looking for better opportunities. It’s analogous to diversifying your investments.
via ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams: How to Fail Your Way to Success – US News and World Report.
Companies Take Steps to Curb Worker Burnout – News OK
One strategy Goldman Sachs has been trying is to make people feel less at risk in their jobs. That\’s not easy in most companies, much less so in investment banking.
To keep junior analysts from burning out, the bank has decided to start hiring first-year analysts as permanent employees, instead of taking them on as contract workers. It is also encouraging them to not work weekends.
via Companies take steps to curb worker burnout | News OK.
Life/work balance is a choice, not another corporate initiative. You have one life. Make the right choice.
US Hospitals Look to Provide Insurance for Poor Patients – FT.com
US hospitals are exploring ways to buy “Obamacare” insurance plans for their sickest and poorest patients as they strain under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in uncompensated costs from the uninsured.
via US hospitals look to provide insurance for poor patients – FT.com.
READ THIS NOW – Writing Wednesdays: “Poof Goes the Middle Class”
People are becoming entrepreneurs. The mind-set of the employee is vanishing like the factory where it was born. It has to. We’ll all die if we wait for some force outside ourselves—business or government—to bring us jobs or teach us who we are or how we ought to live.
We have to invent our own ways, and that’s just what we’re doing.
via Writing Wednesdays: “Poof Goes the Middle Class”.
Poof goes the middle class – latimes.com.
A couple of weeks ago I caught up with my old college buddy on the phone. I asked how his son was doing after taking refuge in his parents’ basement post college graduation.
“Michael’s doing great. He moved out to Brooklyn and is doing project work. Very happy, very busy. Michael has four or five projects on the go.”
Call it what you want – freelancer, contract worker, portfolio careerist. The employee mindset is becoming a thing of the past.
Blue Bunny to Lay Off 58 workers – The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregister.com
The cut comes at a time when Iowa also is being buffeted by big layoffs at Wells Fargo & Co. and the former Aviva USA insurance company, now known as Athene. The Iowa unemployment rate increased to 4.9 percent in August from 4.8 percent in July, but it remains one of the lowest in the U.S.
Memo to Blue Bell and Braum’s:
Bigger is not always better.
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