Small Business Labs

JANUARY 23, 2012

A few years ago we worked on a "future of gas stations" project for a major oil company.  One of our forecasts was that gas stations would offer business center services (Internet access, printers, office space, etc.) to motorists.   The client didn't agree.   So as you can imagine, I was pleased to see that Shell Oil (not the oil company we worked with) is starting a business center pilot project in Europe.  They are working with business center leader Regus&

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 24, 2012

GigaOm's Independent Work: Another Cause of Income Inequality and Maclean's The End of the Job  look at the issues around independent work and income inequality. The key quote comes from Maclean's: "The rise of the contract worker may also be having a more wide-scale impact than previously realized. A growing gap between rich and poor in countries like Canada has been blamed, in part, on a growing number of poor quality jobs.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 25, 2012

Salon has a good interview with the author of The Accordion Family - Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents and the Private Toll of Global Competition.  The book covers the trend towards young adults living with their parents.   This is not a new trend.  The share of Americans living in multi-generational households has been trending up since 1980.   But due to the Great Recession there's been an acceleration in the numbers of young adults living with their parents.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 26, 2012

In case you missed the announcement, 2012 is the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. The UN defines cooperatives as: "Cooperatives are business enterprises owned and controlled by the very members that they serve. Their member-driven nature is one of the most clearly differentiating factors of cooperative enterprises. This fact means that decisions made in cooperatives are balanced by the pursuit of profit, and the needs and interests of members and their communities." Acc

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