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2020-09-17 02:44
The recent passage of #AB2257 shows just how ill-conceived #AB5 was, and how little the lawmakers understood about the gig economy.
I may not write laws, but I write books. When I subm… Read More
2020-06-17 22:23
Deloitte Research and the MIT Sloan Management Review published an interesting report recently entitled “Opportunity Marketplaces.” Their premise is that companies should create… Read More
2020-02-06 00:42
Perhaps because of AB5, the new law regulating independent contractors in California, I have been getting a lot of calls from journalists, think tanks and thought leaders about the #GigEcono… Read More
2019-10-11 01:59
As the author of Thriving in the Gig Economy, I have gotten a lot of inquiries in the last month asking me whether the gig economy will crumble in California given AB5. For those who don&rsq&hell…Read More
2019-09-29 02:13
At the National Association of Corporate Directors Summit last week, Admiral James Stavrids, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO gave a talk on global risks. When asked how we… Read More
2019-09-10 23:37
Escape rooms have become a very popular entertainment option in the last decade, where participants play an escape game to collectively discover clues, solve puzzles and ultimately achieve t… Read More
2019-08-16 23:37
I suppose I should be happy that the #gigeconomy is at least being mentioned by some of the presidential candidates. That said, I am disappointed with their frame of reference.
Mayor… Read More
2019-07-02 23:43
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My favorite source of gig economy data, The State of Independence in America, recently announced its 2019 findings. When I was writi… Read More
2019-06-04 12:50
Life Sci Hub is a #CoolGigCompany that is in a unique niche; they scientists and specialized consultants to the Life Scienc… Read More
2019-05-09 23:27
Brett Helling wants GigWorker.com to be for independent workers what Ridester has become for drivers in the rideshare business. Ridester is the “got to” resource for ridesh… Read More
2019-01-31 01:06
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today gave independent contractors a boost when it reversed a prior decision from the Obama era which had limited the definition of independent cont… Read More
2019-01-15 02:40
There have been several articles so far this year about how furloughed federal workers are using the gig economy to make ends meet; A recent Fast Company article indicated that services off… Read More
2018-11-21 00:50
As an early operator in the #GigEconomy, I am gratified by the ways in which it has grown. This year in particular, I have to say there is much about which to be grateful at this… Read More
2018-11-12 18:17
I am proud to be part of the leadership team of The Myers-Briggs Company that made the effort to change its corporate structure to become a California benefit corporation and obtain its B Co… Read More
2018-10-16 00:42
When you write a book about a topic that is often in the news, like the #GigEconomy, friends send you articles on that topic to be sure you see them. It is nice, since every so often… Read More
2018-08-23 23:37
0ne of the benefits of being a Board member of CPP Inc.-The Myers-Briggs Company is that we get to use the products. Each year at our off-sites, we take an assessment and then, one of the Ph… Read More
2018-08-09 20:02
A challenge for many workers in the # gig economy is the isolation. By definition independent workers are working on their own, an island away from the mainland. You do get to mingle w… Read More
2018-07-31 17:18
People often ask me why I wrote my latest book, Thriving in the Gig Economy. It was due in part to the fact that in the summer of 2016, three different investor groups approached me fo… Read More
2018-07-11 21:15
I have to laugh when people talk about the “new” gig economy, because the truth of the matter is, it is not new at all. Gigs have been around for a long time as have compan… Read More
2018-07-03 19:35
As I like to say, I started a Gig Economy company before the term was even coined. M Squared Consulting matched independent consultants to projects, My partner, Paula Reynolds an… Read More
2018-06-04 22:48
People are often surprised when they discover the millions of people who choose to work independently in the #GigEconomy. Various studies show that their motivation is the desire for f… Read More
2018-05-30 21:23
Getting a mortgage is one of the challenges for independent workers in the #GigEconomy. Lenders typically qualify loan applicants based on employment income as reported on a W2. There… Read More
2018-05-21 17:09
Many people complain that the #GigEconomy creates low wage jobs with no benefits and is therefore a negative for society. What this perspective fails to recognize is that for so many… Read More
2018-05-18 11:52
The April 30th opinion handed down by the California Supreme Court about worker classification has been described as a “seismic shift” which could cause “the end of the Gig… Read More
2018-04-27 20:07
When I am asked about the problems with the rise of the #GigEconomy, I have a very optimistic response. “Smart entrepreneurs out there will come up with solutions to the inefficie… Read More
2018-04-12 15:19
There was a great article in Medium today advocating that all freelancers adopt rush fees. The idea is that urgent projects require special attention that may shuffle the priorities of… Read More
2018-03-30 19:42
Baseball is back in season, even though Opening Day is not until Tuesday in San Francisco. (Go Giants!) Nevertheless, as America’s past time gears up, I thought it was appropriat… Read More
2018-03-19 20:53
Masters of Scale, the podcast run by Reid Hoffman of Greylock Ventures and founder of several companies including LinkedIn, is o… Read More
2018-02-26 23:41
As a student of the #GigEconomy, I seek out #CoolGigCompanies to understand the new models and ideas that are being brought to the market by entrepreneurs around the world. Here is another i… Read More
2018-02-07 00:24
There is a lot of talk right now about whether the educational system in America (and the world) is preparing workers for the increasing importance of the #GigEconomy. The Solo City Project… Read More
2018-01-09 20:55
One of the things I like to do in profiling #CoolGigCompanies is finding entrepreneurs who see an opportunity in the Gig Economy that many others may have overlooked. Craig Lewis of Gig Wage… Read More
2017-12-20 23:52
You have the chance to participate in ground breaking research about how psychological type may factor in to the #GigEconomy. Read on to learn more.
People become independent workers l… Read More
2017-11-27 20:12
The recent UpWork study, Freelancing in America 2017, refreshed data about many aspects of the Gig Economy including participants, motivations and demographics. The study reinforced the conc… Read More
2017-11-17 01:28
Last month, UpWork and Freelancers Union released their fourth annual “Freelancing in America” study and announced that the freelancing ranks continued to grow and reached 57.3 m… Read More
2017-11-08 15:38
…there was the Oxford English Dictionary. To retire originally meant to move to a position of safety and or relaxation. One would “retire to he bedroom”, for example… Read More
2017-11-08 15:37
M Squared was/is a great business, although not everyone saw that at the time. Deploying a network of independent consultants in a just in time management approach was radical in 1988; there… Read More
2017-11-08 15:36
Goldman Sachs announced today changes to its Associate program with the goal of retaining more of these junior hires. A senior official was quoted a saying that they do realize that th… Read More
2017-11-08 15:35
I have been on the Board of CPP for 16 years. CPP Inc., owns the publishing rights to the Meyers Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI), the most widely used personality test in the world. Duri… Read More
2017-11-08 15:32
I was driving out to a business meeting in the California Central Valley listening to The Last Lecture audio book. A wonderful book filled with life lessons that author Randy Pausch off… Read More
2017-11-08 15:30
There are those days in the San Francisco Bay area that are just too perfect for words. This time of year, the air is cool and crisp and the Bay is a deep lapis blue . It is on t… Read More
2017-11-08 15:26
To think about the new book, I need to go back to the old one, A New Brand of Expertise; How Independent Consultants, Free Agents and Interim Managers are Transforming the World of Wor… Read More
2017-11-08 15:23
Several years ago at my kids’ urging, I read The Hunger Games books and loved them. Not only were they a good read, I saw a wonderful connection for ReSurge. In the fi… Read More
2017-11-08 15:21
M Squared alumni may remember this message, since I was often asked to repeat it year after year.
When my son, Kevin, was in 1st grade, his class made a quilt of all of the boys’… Read More
2017-11-08 15:13
As the Chair of a not for profit Board, I think “Giving Tuesday” is a tremendous innovation in philanthropy. Giving Tuesday is December 1 this year. It is meant to fo… Read More
2017-11-07 23:28
Expertise and the Independent Consultant
I recently reread my book, A New Brand of Expertise, published in 2001. It was a book about, as the tag line said, how ” free agents, independe… Read More
2017-11-07 23:27
I don’t always flunk retirement, which explains who I am doing a mini mid week ski trip with another former CEO. At Northstar in Tahoe we took advantage of the opportunity to spend a f… Read More
2017-11-07 23:25
A recent news item little noticed apart from gig economy wonks like me was the fact that the government is planning to get data on how many workers actually populate the “gig eco… Read More
2017-11-07 23:20
Now that I have embarked on my research for the next book on the high-end of the on demand expertise marketplace, I am having a lot of deja vu moments. Certainly, there is the fact, th… Read More
2017-11-07 23:18
I saw a blog post today from DCR Workforce announcing that there will finally be a “reckoning ” of the gig economy. http://blog.dcrworkforce.com/finally-official-reckoning… Read More
2017-11-07 23:16
I am reading, or more accurately, listening to the book Start with Why by Simon Siner which is about how great leaders inspire people to action. https://www.startwithwhy.com/About.aspx
In on… Read More
2017-11-07 23:14
Stephen Kasriel the CEO of Upwork just wrote an article in Fast Company called “Why the Future of Work will Look a lot like Hollywood.” I agree wholeheartedly and in… Read More
2017-11-07 23:12
As the Chair of ReSurge International I attended a great event this week called Board Match put on by The Volunteer Center. http://thevolunteercenter.net/?The_Board_Match_NPO The e… Read More
2017-11-07 23:10
Honest Dollar in the Gig Economy
The headline in the Wall Street Journal yesterday read, “Goldman buys Retirement Startup“. The story went on to report how the purchase… Read More
2017-11-07 23:08
A recent article in Forbes, http://ww.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2016/03/21/gig-economy-app-blue-collar-job-on-demand/#51a7380f74e2, illustrates a problem with the media’s f… Read More
2017-11-07 21:47
An article in Forbes today suggested the title of this post, that companies need a new operating system for the Gig Economy. The article entitled, “How Businesses must Adapt to A… Read More
2017-11-07 21:42
As part of my research for my new book, Thriving in the Gig Economy, which will be coming out next spring, I had the opportunity to interview Stephen DeWitt, the CEO of WorkMarket… Read More
2017-11-07 21:37
Mark Miller, a journalist who writes about financial matters surrounding aging and retirement wrote a nice piece today called “Retirement in the Gig Economy“.http://www.wea… Read More
2017-11-07 21:31
I had plans to write a totally different post today about the Gig Economy related to some work I had done for my new book, Thriving in the Gig Economy. But the political events of the… Read More
2017-11-07 21:27
Small Business Trends today had an article entitled “20 Platforms for Workers in the Gig Economy”.https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/02/gig-websites.html It was a good li… Read More
2017-11-07 21:22
Since its Academy Award season, I thought it would be appropriate to compare the Gig Economy to Hollywood. Stephen Kasriel the CEO of Upwork wrote an article in Fast Compan… Read More
2017-11-07 17:51
On this International Women’s Day, I thought a good post would be to talk about women in the Gig Economy. In the recent McKinsey Global Institute Report, “Independent Work: Choic… Read More
2017-11-07 17:46
Harvard Business Review published an interesting article by Professor Diane Mulcahey last week called, “Will the Gig Economy Make the Office Obsolete?” https://hbr.org/2017/… Read More
2017-11-07 17:32
Although some think whether an individual is an independent contractor or an employee is a new legal question brought about by the gig economy digital platforms like Uber, the truth of… Read More
2017-10-27 02:20
The trend of independent work is not just a story about the workers, but also the ecosystem that supports them. In my #CoolGigCompanies series I highlight some of the firms that may no… Read More
2017-10-10 21:58
How the observers of the Gig Economy might not always get it right.
My dog, Lucy
Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article about how getting a gig as a dog walker is just as har… Read More
2017-09-28 02:02
It may not be his mantra, but in interviews and articles, Marco Zappacosta, the CEO of Thumbtack, always says, “the future of work is local services.” With increasing autom… Read More
2017-09-01 22:30
Labor Day is the traditional end of summer holiday, filled with picnics, last trips to the beach and big retail sales. How ever you choose to celebrate this weekend, be sure to raise y… Read More
2017-08-25 20:11
Many people do not appreciate just how diverse the Gig economy is. Not only are there a vast number of talented people with diverse expertise from animators to data scientists to web d… Read More
2017-08-15 20:14
I recently was on holiday in Kenya. Given my interest in the #GigEconomy, it was hard not to notice the huge billboards advertising for Uber drivers once we arrived in Nairobi. So I de… Read More
2017-07-29 18:52
Management consulting is often a great training ground for entrepreneurs. That was certainly the case for Jan Schaechtele and Christoph Hardt, two former McKinsey consultants who were… Read More
2017-07-20 17:15
It has been a busy week of interviews about my new book. Here is a partial list:
7/12 – Technomics, KGO, Host Jason Middleton; he half hour show will air in the… Read More
2017-07-19 23:05
After nine years, I have stepped down from the Board of ReSurge International. ReSurge International sends Reconstructive Surgeons to help the poor around the world and at the same ti… Read More
2017-07-17 17:32
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2017-07-06 00:51
As I continue my exploration of the wonderful world of the Gig Economy, I am discovering many fascinating firms. My #CoolGigCompanies posts will profile what some of these firms a… Read More
2017-06-28 01:43
Baby Boomers will immediately get the reference, but in deference to those not born until after 1988, please permit me a bit of an introduction. Nancy Reagan was of course, the wife of… Read More
2017-06-16 22:19
MBO Partners recently released its 7th Annual State of Independence in America study. This report looks at the world of independent workers, including self-employed workers, part-time… Read More
2017-06-07 23:37
With all of the drama in Washington these days, you can miss the substantive work that may be happening. With very little fanfare, corresponding bills in both the Senate and the H… Read More
2017-05-26 01:09
I am thrilled to report that Publisher’s Weekly included Thriving in the Gig Economy as one of the new and noteworthy upcoming books Read More
2017-05-25 01:18
Accenture published the results of its 2016 US College Graduate Employment Study in a report entitled, “The Gig Experience; Unleashing the potential of your Talent and your Busin… Read More
2017-05-13 23:47
Tools of the Trade for some Gig Workers
Last week, Nathan Heller published a great piece in The New Yorker, entitled, “Is the Gig Economy Working?” Since my new book, Thriving in… Read More
2017-05-01 16:37
Sheena Iengar is a professor at Columbia Business School who studies decision making. In a recent Ted Talk she explained the concept of “Choice Overload” and the fact… Read More
2017-04-26 00:21
I am headed to Disrupt HR in San Francisco Thursday, 4/27. check it out at http://disrupthr.co/san-francisco/ Leaders in the field will be talking about new ways to think abo… Read More
2017-04-21 21:24
A student of the #gigeconomy, I am always reading what is being said about it. Although we all know it is a global talent market, sometimes sitting in the shadow of Silicon Valley, you can f… Read More
2017-04-12 23:18
A big thank you to all of my early readers who have offered up some great comments about my upcoming book, Thriving in the Gig Economy. Here is a sample.
“The new landscape of wo… Read More
2017-04-10 17:47
Berkeley Haas Magazine http://haas.berkeley.edu/ published the first announcement of my new book, Thriving in the Gig Economy. What can I say but go Bears!
Working Smarter
Book… Read More
2017-04-07 23:10
Stephen DeWitt, the CEO of talent automation software firm, WorkMarket, https://www.workmarket.com recently published a provocative piece in the NewCo Shift entitled, … Read More
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