Jobs in a Market Economy
” If you lose your job you are in a world of pain.  But the fact is we exist in a market economy and nobody is owed a job.”
states Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network in a recent Future Tense interview
His company co-sponsored a recent study (summary in SFGate) on offshoring’s effect on the Bay Area.
More tasty quotes from the article:
“Let’s figure out what the Bay Area does best and promote those kinds of industries.”
Exactly - this goes for regions, companies, departments, teams, and individuals. If a regions, company, department, team, or person doesn’t know what their good at, any change in the landscape is a threat.
If they do, they automatically have a framework for dealing with threats and opportunities.
I’m not a great graphic designer. I’m happy to hand that off to some one else.
“There’s a perception that one job that’s created in India is a job that’s lost here. That’s not necessarily true.”
Nope, in my experience with remote teams, there needs to be at least one representative managing the offshore team. Maybe they’re not a developer - but it’s a job.
