drmstream[writing]

Don’t you love the com­mu­nity around your inter­ests and enthu­si­asms that you find on the web? You can’t repli­cate the expe­ri­ence any­where in real life: the vari­ety of view­points, the excite­ment of shar­ing and the feel­ing of val­i­da­tion that comes from con­sort­ing with peo­ple who see the world from the same angle but who are […]

There’s a lot of con­cern about employ­ment in the U.S., jus­ti­fi­ably so, as a mul­ti­tude of com­pa­nies have trimmed their work­force to reflect cur­rent or antic­i­pated down­turns in results. Here are some use­ful charts from the Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics: The first looks at the growth in the labor force over the past 10 years. […]

The dan­ger of this time is that you stop to watch, won­der about what will come next. The para­me­ters that you assessed the future with — eco­nomic, social, polit­i­cal — are all at play. You can’t assume, and now there isn’t much con­fi­dence that you can project either. What does the utter cli­mate of uncertainty […]

Suc­cess­ful busi­nesses are man­aged.  The larger a busi­ness becomes, the more closely it should be man­aged. What does it mean to man­age?  Is it a call for increased con­trol? Actu­ally, effec­tive man­age­ment is less about con­trol as it is about iden­ti­fy­ing an out­come, decid­ing on a plan and agree­ing on the infor­ma­tion that will measure […]