Business is investing in equipment rather than people. While not a new trend it is now today hitting professionals and skilled workers. A hundred years ago 41% of the work force was on the farm. Most were displaced and they all adapted to new types of jobs.
The new business paradigm is an opportunity and a challenge for small business. Transformational experiences must be produced and delivered. A special type of person and process is needed. Full attention must be given to making that happen. That means that everything else must be automated and/or outsourced. Most businesses should only create concepts and then buy the product or service from wherever they can get it. domestic or foreign.
It was all succinctly described today:
“If you’re doing something that can be written down in a programmatic, algorithmic manner, you’re going to be substituted for quickly,” said Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard in a New York Times article on June 10,2011.
And in what is a good description of the issue Chris Edwards, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute,said in the Federal Times of June 6, 2011:
"Why does a farmer need a local farm office? He can use the Internet."
This is all brief and admittedly a bit cryptic. Tell us what you do and we will tell you what you need to do to survive.
The new business paradigm is an opportunity and a challenge for small business. Transformational experiences must be produced and delivered. A special type of person and process is needed. Full attention must be given to making that happen. That means that everything else must be automated and/or outsourced. Most businesses should only create concepts and then buy the product or service from wherever they can get it. domestic or foreign.
It was all succinctly described today:
“If you’re doing something that can be written down in a programmatic, algorithmic manner, you’re going to be substituted for quickly,” said Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard in a New York Times article on June 10,2011.
And in what is a good description of the issue Chris Edwards, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute,said in the Federal Times of June 6, 2011:
"Why does a farmer need a local farm office? He can use the Internet."
This is all brief and admittedly a bit cryptic. Tell us what you do and we will tell you what you need to do to survive.
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