Public policy should actively encourage moves to wherever work is, by covering moving and relocation costs and setting off the public expense of trying to support the skilled person at a location where the skill may take time to deploy. Depending on economic recovery, or may never get a chance to flourish again.
Category Archives: Globalization
How’s the Internet changing your business? USA Today sheds 9% workforce and Telecom shake-up with Google VOIP
The Internet is truly the global life changer.If you can answer just how the Internet is changing your business and act on it – you’ll do great. Consider two recent events: USA Today has shed 9% of the workforce as it tries to go digital. A Communication Professor once told me that Communication and JournalismContinue reading “How’s the Internet changing your business? USA Today sheds 9% workforce and Telecom shake-up with Google VOIP”
Housing market woes reflect slow jobs and underlyng slow income as US home based call center outsourcing takes off
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Eat,Pray and Love author’s book “Committed” and Buyer-Seller Relationships
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Public Works give work to machines and not “shovel ready” men in the 21st century
This post was published on August 2, 2010 during the recovery process from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. We believe that the core idea idea that you need advanced computer and knowledge skills in large scale shovelling still holds in 2021. Just as Governments worldwide try to dig out of the Coronavirus pandemic – Updated January 10, 2021.
The Facebook Webshift: WikiLeaks and Shirely Sherrod
This is what we call the “Facebook Webshift.” (This post from July 2010). Just look at Bradley Manning the alleged WikiLeaks person and he could be just any “invincible” college undergrad- anywhere in the world with an average of 300+ Facebook friends- many whom he has not actually met or dealt with. Everyone trusts everyoneContinue reading “The Facebook Webshift: WikiLeaks and Shirely Sherrod”
Boeing announces 18 B $ of orders at Farnborough , England Airshow and US Engine suppliers announce new business
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Wall Street starts hiring but Main Street needs to go global
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“Go West (now overseas)” or at least source iPhone parts globally for a thriving business !
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Gen David Petraeus replaces McChrystal , the COIN FM3-24 strategy and lessons for business
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