business enlargement:
... the dynamics of making
an enterprise bigger
by planning acquisitions,
mergers and
reorganizations where
its status as a whole is under consideration; an expression
sometimes used to indicate expansion of an economy by
recognizing the growth
of the number and/or size of enterprises within it; an expression
sometimes substituted for enterprise
development, business
expansion and business growth in areas other than
size of
customer
base, market
share or business
development.
choice items:
... articles or units in a collection
that are the more desirable or have the most value as compared
to all others. Top choice items on a list, for example, are those
that are preferable for choosing. The top choice items is the
most preferable over all others. See the definition of a shortlist
which has only the top choice items taken from a longer list,
leaving others behind.
confederation of the self-employed:
... a group of self-employed people
working together in an ally
network; a union of freelancers not
organized as a legal partners but who regularly collaborate about
the operations of their independent enterprises; an organization
made up of allied independents workers and
set in place by informal agreement rather than a legal contract.
contract worker:
... a freelancer who
works under an agreements between himself or herself and a client,
customer or patron for mutual benefit understood from a situation
in which there was an offer and acceptance. A contract may exist
as a formal, informal, written or oral agreement. or it may be
a work arrangement that is just plain understood between two parties.
Contract employees are different because they are generally paid by
staffing agencies for whom they work to perform specific functions in
a contractual relationship and for a define period of time. The contract
is between the staffing agency and its client. A freelancer may contract
with a staffing agency. A temp may be someone who is either an contract
employee or freelancer. In other words a temp works temporarily for a
limited time period.
Digital Marxism::
... expression used by Daniel
H. Pink in his book, Free Agent Nation, to
point out that the ... proliferation of
inexpensive computers, wireless handheld devices, and
ubiquitous (Internet) connections ... has put workers
with an inclination to be entrepreneurs in the position of having
more options to be productive on their own. Free
Agent Nation (Still) Wants You! (March 2001): An article published
online in Fast
Company.com with more about Dan Pink and his book. Also,
there is mention of Karl Marx and more information about him
in Appendix
F of this glossary.
e-commute:
... to virtually commute to
a place of work; to telecommute, to
report to a job by using electronic
devices or etools to process
work at a location remote from the place
that one would travel to and from in person before the time that
it became possible to telecommute.
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e-tirement:
... a stage of one's work-life
during which, after retirement, he or she continues to
be productive through the use of the Web or other global
communications network; a retirement by recognition of
a
standard definition of the term but one in which a work-life
continues, usually in an electronic
cottage with access to suppliers and customers
via the Web. An electronic cottage (the expression is tied
to the definition of cottage
industry) is a domicile with communications
technology services and equipment that allows an individual
to work effectively in place with a global outreach. Electronic
cottage was mention in Alvin Toffler's 1980 book, The
Third Wave. There is a website, Electronic
House.com. Arthur
C. Clark (1917 2008)
is remembered as the first dweller in the electronic cottage.
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free agent infrastructure:
... the underlying base or foundation of
an economy that
supports independent
workers as enterprise
developers and business owners.
A community infrastructure
that supports a free-agent economy
has features such as resources and services for entrepreneurial as
well as cottage
industry operations in need of cutting edge
communications technologies. Smart communities that stay up
to date with the times insist that their economic
developers be skilled and dedicated to growing
their free agent and small business economies with the same enthusiasm
that they have
for recruiting operations of major corporations.
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horizontal loyalty:
... The state or quality of allegiance
to peers or colleagues within a group rather than its leaders;
an alignment of members of a team or workers within an organization
on the basis of equal standing with another as opposed to
those who are up the chain
of command.
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independent worker:
... one who is self-reliant and self-supporting while
engaged in a purposeful or industrious activity; a free-lance operator
within an occupation or activity who is only influenced, guided, or controlled
by the customer (see voice
of the customer)and,
of course, government rules and regulations as owner of a legitimate
enterprise; a free-agent worker; a contract worker; an entrepreneur or
small business operator without employees.
just-in-time politics:
... a concept presented
by by Dan
Pink in his book, Free
Agent Nation, whereby a politico
reacts to challenges by assembling available
support and resources for a quick
fix as
opposed to acting preemptively to build
coalitions and keeping them together.
Pink defines the expression by comparing
it to just-in-time (JIT)
manufacturing which essentially means
putting together products without maintaining
a inventory of components. Just-in-time is
defined in this glossary. This definition
of just-in-time politics may worth understanding
because of the
politician's role in the
enterprise
and economic development process.
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define nanocorp
... the smallest of small enterprises,
e.g. Economic
Development Services
define Peter-Out Principle:
... Dan
Pink's adaptation of the Peter
Principle to point
out that many people who move up the ranks as employees
realize at a point in time that they are no longer enjoying
what they do so they quit and become independent
workers.
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profitization:
... the process that causes a profit yield.
To profitize is to change from a position of loss or break
even to one where a net becomes
available or is received in excess of original cost input.
A simple formula for profit yield is income minus the
total stake used to produce it.
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I am pulling my hair out:
... a metaphor for frustration or
a state of frenzy at the point when people reach up to
the top of their heads as if to pull on their hair.
Usually, grabbing ones hair in frustration is accompanied
by a
low-toned scream or utterance of aggravation. For an
example of use of the term in connection with one
of the frustrations of the Internet, see the definition
of the idiom, shelf
life, where it is indicated that
we are pulling our hair out in a frenzy of trying to
keep up with broken links and information
as it becomes outdated online.
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Tailorism:
... Dan
Pink's adaptation of an approach to mass production
which he more or less uses to indicates that ... one
size fits all. He attributes the thought to Frederick
Winslow Taylor. The idea being that a tailor working
on a production line is not concerned with fitting a suit
to a specific customer. One extrapolated though is that
the business organization is not concerned with fitting
the talents and interests of specific employees to the
jobs they do, thus producing in its hierarchy a tendency
to move good workers towards a level of incompetence (the
Peter
Principle). As seen in this way, Tailorism feeds
the area of enterprise
development that requires entrepreneurs and freelancers when
employees with the wherewithal to do something about it
realize the Peter-Out Principle applies to them.
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SOHO:
... acronym
for Small
Office/Home Office; an acronym that identifies the small
offices that now exist in homes as the electronic
cottages of the self-employed; the in-home
office of a nanocorp or
that of an independent worker
or one who e-commutes to a job.
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