Gina Minks on 2009-10-14
Are contractors always cheaper? Define cheaper.
This link has been bookmarked by 15 people . It was first bookmarked on 17 May 2009, by John Rison.
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21 Oct 09
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14 Oct 09
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contractors are cheaper
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fewer traditional employees
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19 Aug 09
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success will be defined not by rank or seniority but by getting what matters to you personally," whether that's the chance to lead a new-product launch or being able to take winters off for snowboarding.
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10 Jun 09
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"In 2019, Gen X will finally be in charge. And they will make some big changes."
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22 May 09
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By 2019, Generation X — that relatively small cohort born from 1965 to 1978 —
will have spent nearly two decades bumping up against a gray ceiling of boomers
in senior decision-making jobs. But that will end. -
Companies already want more short-term independent contractors and consultants
and fewer traditional employees because contractors are cheaper. And seniority
matters less and less as time goes on, because it's about the past, not the
future." - 1 more annotations...
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They don't teach that in B school — at least not yet. In fact, Rob Carter,
chief information officer at FedEx, thinks the best training for anyone who
wants to succeed in 10 years is the online game World of Warcraft. Carter
says WoW, as its 10 million devotees worldwide call it, offers a peek
into the workplace of the future.
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team faces a fast-paced, complicated series of obstacles called quests, and each
player, via his online avatar, must contribute to resolving them or else lose
his place on the team. The player who contributes most gets to lead the team —
until someone else contributes more.
The game, which many Gen Yers
learned as teens, is intensely collaborative, constantly demanding and often
surprising. "It takes exactly the same skill set people will need more of in the
future to collaborate on work projects," says Carter. "The kids are already
doing it."-
sue kanigsberg on 2009-05-22
By the sound of this paragraph, my son will be the most successful team leader. He has been WoWing for years!!
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20 May 09
Leslie CamachoBy 2019, Generation X — that relatively small cohort born from 1965 to 1978 — will have spent nearly two decades bumping up against a gray ceiling of boomers in senior decision-making jobs. But that will end. Janet Reid, managing partner at Global Lead, a
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Each team faces a fast-paced, complicated series of obstacles called quests, and each player, via his online avatar, must contribute to resolving them or else lose his place on the team. The player who contributes most gets to lead the team — until someone else contributes more.
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marina k on 2009-05-18
lolwut?
clearly someone gave these folks the wrong info about wow. as someone who has participated in these large-scale "teams" (large scale meaning 25 people), raid leaders don't just come and go depending on who can lead the raid the most effectively. most guilds have institutionalized the leadership and sometimes (read: most of the time) that leadership is poor, or ignores structural problems with the guild, or is unfair in doling out rewards and punishments, or disappears without a trace one day. sure wow might allow for a more fluid arrangement, but in my (extensive ><) experience this very rarely happens. -
Liz Becker on 2009-10-21
There are guilds out there with very stable leadership that purposefully cultivate future leaders and team members. Most of those guilds involve older players who have the know how and the willingness to spend time cultivating a team environment and developing less experienced players. The leadership teams looks at the strengths and weaknesses of other players and work out strategies that take advantage of this or compensate as needed. I agree that this type of guild is not the majority, but they are definitely out there.
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Mrs. SkotnickiBy 2019 much of the future job force will be freelance.
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17 May 09
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Paying your dues, moving up slowly and getting the corner office — that's going away. In 10 years, it will be gone,"
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Sarah Hanawald on 2009-05-17
I think it's already gone, and has been for a while, with journalists documenting it regularly. I recall reading that the one-company career was over when I was searching for my first job--in 1989!
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marina k on 2009-05-18
i think you're right. unfortunately this is one gen y'er who would be perfectly happy working at a good organization for however many years...starting at the bottom and working up...totally not suited for endless freelancing over here :(
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Instead, success will be defined not by rank or seniority but by getting what matters to you personally
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The Gen X managers who will be holding all this together will need to be adept at a few things that earlier generations, with their more hierarchical management styles and relative geographical insularity, never really had to learn. One of those is collaborative decision-making
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the best training for anyone who wants to succeed in 10 years is the online game World of Warcraft.
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Public Stiky Notes
clearly someone gave these folks the wrong info about wow. as someone who has participated in these large-scale "teams" (large scale meaning 25 people), raid leaders don't just come and go depending on who can lead the raid the most effectively. most guilds have institutionalized the leadership and sometimes (read: most of the time) that leadership is poor, or ignores structural problems with the guild, or is unfair in doling out rewards and punishments, or disappears without a trace one day. sure wow might allow for a more fluid arrangement, but in my (extensive ><) experience this very rarely happens.
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