Cantina Bell: The upscale Taco Bell menu shows the influence of Chipotle on the industry and the future of American food. The Company Man’s Guide to Starting a Side Hustle — Part II: Think Big, Act Small. Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a 2 part series by Tyler Tervooren of Advanced Riskology, creator of The Bootstrapper Guild.
Why work more for less? Many managers in Danish companies control their staff more and more because the economic crisis is putting them under pressure.
But this tactic is completely wrong. The greater the control, the lower the motivation – and the lower the performance, says researcher Signe Groth-Brodersen. (Photo: Colourbox) The need for motivation, commitment and drive has never been greater. Businesses and public-sector workplaces are under the pressure of economic constraints and calls for increasing efficiency. They need employees who work harder for less. In this light it seems strange that there is an increase in the use of control as a management tool in many large places of work. Essential to look at how motivation arises Using control as a management tool has a demotivating effect, with a negative impact on commitment and performance. The Company Man’s Guide to Starting a Side Hustle — Part I: Confronting Your Objections.
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a 2 part series by Tyler Tervooren of Advanced Riskology, creator of The Bootstrapper Guild.
It’s a rare man that doesn’t—at some juncture of his life—stop to question how things might be different if he worked for himself. Even a man who loves his job occasionally wonders what it might be like to strike out on his own and follow some crazy, half-baked notion. Self-employment is a dream held by many men but acted on by few. The reasons for this are many, but from my vantage point, most of the reasons practical men decide never to give themselves a chance to start their own side hustle is because much of what we learn about it—at least in The U.S. —comes from television shows, movies, and the media rather than people who actually run businesses. In my short life so far, I’ve run four different very-small-businesses (I call them micro-businesses) and I can say, without doubt, that the way they came to be do not match any fairytale seen on TV. Schumpeter: In praise of misfits.
How Planetary Resources Can Make a Profit. I fell for a Craigslist job scam - Mortifying Disclosures. A professor once told a class at my university that “all of society is playing itself out on Craigslist.”
A Revival In American Manufacturing, Led By Brooklyn Foodies : Planet Money. Hide captionEvery week, Robert Stout of Kings County Jerky slices meat by hand.
Adam Lerner/adamlerner.net Every week, Robert Stout of Kings County Jerky slices meat by hand. One day Chris Woehrle decided to finally leave his corporate job and pursue his dream: to become an artisanal food craftsman. FAQ: Should I Go to Law School? For those of you who’ve been following the site for a while, you know that I’m a law school grad–University of Tulsa College of Law 2009.
Because many readers know I went to law school, I get several emails a month from guys who are thinking about taking the same path themselves, and are wondering if I have any advice for them about making that decision. Joseph Turow: How Companies Are 'Defining Your Worth' Online. One of the fastest-growing online businesses is the business of spying on Internet users.
Using sophisticated software that tracks people's online movements through the Web, companies collect the information and sell it to advertisers. Every time you click a link, fill out a form or visit a website, advertisers are working to collect personal information about you, says Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They then target ads to you based on that information. On Wednesday's Fresh Air, Turow — the author of the book The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth — details how companies are tracking people through their computers and cellphones in order to personalize the ads they see.
Turow tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that tracking is ubiquitous across the Internet, from search engines to online retailers and even greeting card companies. Using The Social Space To Market Ads. 3-D printing, copyright, and intellectual property. Photo courtesy Charles Randall.
This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. On Feb. 29, Future Tense will host an event on the Make movement and do-it-yourself innovation in Washington, D.C. For more information and to sign up for the event, please visit the NAF website.) It is something of a fluke that copyright law has become so intertwined with our online lives.
For most people, the first things that were easy to create and distribute online—articles, pictures, music, movies—also happened to be material protected by copyright. How to fold a Three Stairs Pocket Square. Bootstrapping a Startup.