Fri.May 18, 2012

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Why Small Businesses Aren't Hiring - VUCA

Small Business Labs

VUCA is an acronym developed by the U.S. Army War College in the late 1990's to describe their view of the future strategic environment.   It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and we think this group of words does a pretty good job of describing today's business environment. We also think this operating environment explains why a lot of small businesses are not hiring additional employees.  Things are simply too uncertain and too volatile to take on

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Secret Freelancer Knowledge

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Best selling author Neil Gaiman gave the commencement address at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His theme was "Make Good Art" and in it he shared his "secret freelancer knowledge": You get work however you get work, but people get to keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time.

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