Post #3 Why civil unrest is inevitable if we don’t create jobs
So here’s the quick sketch of reality in America: 13 million people without jobs (including the low participation rate) – 8.1% unemployment rate in America 2 Trillion Dollars of Corporate and Private Sector earnings, sitting on the sidelines, collecting no interest. If you invested all 2 Trillion dollars into creating 13 million jobs, you’d have […]
Post #2 – The Job, Jobs, and Jobbers
So once you convince people/corporations with money to do what they already want to do, then you need to hire people to do those projects. Here’s where you hire people. The people you’re going to hire are young, they’re social-media aware (they’ve been using it for all their adult lives, after all), and they are […]
HOW TO CREATE JOBS {POST #1 “The Current Landscape in America”}
Post #1: The current landscape in America (or anywhere in the modern world, really) In 2009 New York was going to hell in a handbasket. Century-old firms were gone within a few weeks – Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, etc., the stock market was in a free-fall, people were talking about the end of world, MSNBC […]
HOW TO CREATE JOBS! {Preamble}
Hi friends, I’m working on a series of posts that I’m going to tentatively title: How to Create Jobs. It’s a 3-part post that will be published next Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Post #1: The current landscape in America (or anywhere in the modern world, really) I’m going to do a cursory dive into what […]
What little I know about Leadership…
This is all I know about leadership 1.) Leadership has a sense of gravity to it. If you think of Leadership as an element, think of it as one of the denser elements like Tungsten or Gold (or Osmium!). If placed at the top of an organization leadership will flow downward throughout the company. If it’s […]
Are we lucky?
I had a great conversation with a fellow competitor the other day. Yes, competitors from EVERY industry talk to each other. In the digital dev world, today’s competitor might be tomorrow’s partner, depending on the project. He and I were talking about how much work there was, how our companies were just expanding, and how […]
I love my clients
I really, really love my clients at the company. I mean, in the past I’ve worked at companies where it’s usually an “us vs them” mentality – management vs employees, company vs clients, you vs all. But that’s not how I feel these days about my clients. For whatever reason, it doesn’t matter what industry […]
Keep Calm and DOM & TOM
When you’re dealing with the day-to-day crises, it’s hard to figure out if there’s a fundamental problem with the company, or if this is the rocky process of a high-growth company. My company’s grown 300% in the last year (doesn’t that sound WONDERFUL?!) alone. This year we’re trending towards another 100%, by some metrics. It’s […]
The Blame’s on Me (the Blame’s on You)
People in positions of power are afflicted with a severe problem: they don’t get yelled at often enough. Very rarely will they hear how they’re failing; how they can do better; or anything how their choices impact negatively/positively. We as leaders need to be empathetic, willing and eager to hear what our colleagues have to […]
It’s time to Party
We’re planning a few parties at D&T. And there’s a good reason: every so often you have to celebrate your wins. I think Steve Jobs said that (one of the few quotes I’ll use from the man…) It take a lot of energy to win anything. So many companies that are scrappy just keep their […]