Sep 18Can Corporate America Win Over Stay At Home Moms?I was sitting at a local diner. The kind that has regulars that have been coming for years. I love going to places like that diner as it’s always fun to sit and listen to the customers and staff interact like they are neighbors or family, which in many cases…Labor10 min readLabor10 min read
Sep 4Thoughts on Telework Transitions for the OrganizationI was in a leadership group at work. I absolutely love them, leadership groups I mean. I take part in them whenever I can and have been in many of them over the years. I don’t love them for what you learn. The content is always mixed. Some information is…Remote Working10 min readRemote Working10 min read
Aug 21Flexible Labor Markets and Inflexible Bills III: Where Government Steps InIt’s the dream of nearly all entrepreneurs and economists, the idea of a truly flexible labor market. They can get employees when and where they need them and only when and where they need them. But like many things in life the ideal isn’t possible without tradeoffs. In my first…Government11 min readGovernment11 min read
Aug 7Flexible Labor Markets and Inflexible Bills II: Could It Be Good For The Employee?In the first article in this series I talked about some of the different catch-22’s with flexible labor markets, the dream of nearly all entrepreneurs and economists. In a flexible labor market, employers generally want to hire and fire workers as needed, but employers also want regular income, which only…Labor9 min readLabor9 min read
Jul 24Flexible Labor Markets and Inflexible Bills I: The Big PictureThere is an inflection point between how we manage our lives and what the ideal economic environment is as it relates to employment. Well, maybe conundrum is a better description. Specifically I’m talking about our culture and the concept of flexible labor markets. A flexible labor market, a truly flexible…Economics10 min readEconomics10 min read
Jul 10Three Mini ArticlesI’m supposed to be writing something. Unfortunately I’m having one of those days where there isn’t any one thing that’s fully formed enough to write a whole article on. I’ve had several interesting ideas. This isn’t surprising as I get article ideas often. It’s so common that I developed a…Preparation9 min readPreparation9 min read
Jun 26Making New FriendsMy eldest child just got what I refer to as her first “big girl” job. What’s a big girl job? She was working for one company and was recruited, apparently heavily, by one of her vendors. This in and of itself isn’t surprising, this is how the world operates. Well…Friends10 min readFriends10 min read
Jun 12Should You Take The Promotion?We all got the email from the head of our organization at the same time about some big changes. Thankfully, it wasn’t a “half of you are getting laid off” type email. It was simply about how some different people in upper management are taking on newly created roles. These…Work10 min readWork10 min read
May 29Plan Your Down TimeBack in my vacation time wasters article, I talked about how I like to be productive on vacation and how there are a ton of things that keep it from happening. I’m on vacation again, well, vacation isn’t the right word. I’m on a ‘break’ which we often have in…Downtime9 min readDowntime9 min read
May 15Single / Single Syndrome: Single Parents With Only ChildrenThere are some big trends that are converging and I’m starting to see the effect in my friends and family. The first big trend is that people are having fewer children. Well it’s a trend that’s been happening for quite a while especially in first world countries. When birth control…Family9 min readFamily9 min read