In the 19th century, Hershey’s built villages and towns for their employees. – Wally Olins
Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits by Debbie Millman
Category Archives: Conflict
Theme: The Metagame
The metagame is playing a different game than your competitors. A game they can’t play.
Part of their greatness comes from identifying the constraints of others and capitalizing on those structural disadvantages.
The Metagame: How Bill Belichick and Warren Buffett Play a Different Game
Theme: Livelihoods of the Future
What are we going to do? To support our families? To support our communities? To be happy?
- What will our roles be?
- What should we teach our kids?
- What Happens at 50?
“Over the past two decades, the U.S. labor market has undergone a quiet transformation, as companies increasingly forgo full-time employees and fill positions with independent contractors, on-call workers or temps—what economists have called “alternative work arrangements” or the “contingent workforce.”
The Real Future of Work
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/future-work-independent-contractors-alternative-work-arrangements-216212
“The predestined, blue-collar lifestyle that Bruce Springsteen sang about in Darkness on the Edge of Town is already a thing of the past, and it will only grow smaller in our rear-view mirrors as we approach 2040. Soon, the world of the large central firm and steady, predictable work will exist only in museums.”
“Traditional work is dying.”
5 Major Ways Freelancers Will Change The Economy By 2040 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the total number of new business startups and business closures per year — the birth and death rates of American companies — have crossed for the first time since the measurement began. I am referring to employer businesses, those with one or more employees”
Administration Strategy
Notes From:
Is Trump Floundering, or Is Bannon Making Good on His ‘Revolution’? | Foreign Policy
Quotes:
Bannon and other like-minded ideologues in the Trump White House view disruption and polarization as means of pressing ahead with their agenda and rallying their core supporters.
when a story comes up which is not helpful, not favorable, or when he wants to get people disrupted … he throws a ball and everybody scrambles after it and neglects the story they should be following.
the hallmarks of a “shock event” designed to throw adversaries off guard and seize the initiative.
A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines
Bannon and his allies are trying to squeeze through a shrinking window of opportunity, moving quickly and decisively before the federal government’s bureaucracy can respond and before members of Congress or grass roots activists can coalesce to push back