I 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…

It’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…

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…

There 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…

I’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…

My 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…

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…

Back 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…

There 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…