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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Dopo il licenziamento, il demansionamento
Il problema di essere mandati via da un’azienda è spinoso. A trent’anni non è grave, si è giovani, si può trovare un’altra occupazione con relativa facilità. Le aziende pagano un’indennità, minimo diciotto mesi di stipendio. Ma il problema non è quello. Quando non si ha un…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Big Data and the bureaucratization of life
As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the opposite, to liberate life from bureaucracy. This dovetails with the trend in job automation: the more bureaucratic a job…
LSD and rejecting traditional mores
LSD influenced users to embrace the new counter-culture and reject traditional mores, jobs, and relationships.
How To Leave Academia
Data science as a way out of academia
The most accessible job to a typical physicist cum programmer goes by the job title Data Scientist. It's also one of the more high paying jobs in technology. Probably the best way to describe the job is 'be the programmer who understands regression and confidence…
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: move forward not away
We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a change, however, what thoughts, beliefs and habits travel with us recreating the environment we're escaping? A change is an…
Peter Principle - Wikipedia
Peter Principle of Incompetence
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence". In other words, employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Solution selling
then to develop an effective presentation showing how their abilities can help solve the organization’s problem. It’s called “solution selling,” and is a key paradigm in business success.
Good jobs go to the proactive
Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct…
When You Know It's Time To Quit Your Day Job And Launch A Startup - Silicon Prairie News
Creating a startup
Setting aside for the moment that the dream and the reality of running a startup are very different things and that many of those "ideas" are likely terrible, there is clearly a significant barrier that prevents millions of people from just walking out on their day job and…