spacer spacer spacer
spacer
appendix e
spacer
spacer spacer spacer
spacer spacer spacer
spacer
.network glossary
pages in series:spacer previous page in series next page in series spacer
spacer
page down to information spacer
spacer
about Google and  .network
spacer
spacerglossary directoryspacerthe Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary
spacer
more search toolsspacersearch tools and help
spacer
spacer
spacer

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.
spacer

spacer
definition of business enlargement / definition of enterprise enlargement
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of choice items / definition of choice item / definition of top choice items
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of contract worker / definition of contract employee / definition of temp worker
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of contract worker / definition of contract employee / definition of temp worker
spacer

spacer

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.
spacer

spacer
definition of digital marxism
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of ecommute / definition of e-commute / define ecommuting / define e-commuting
spacer

spacer
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 (1917dash2008) is remembered as the first dweller in the electronic cottage.
spacer

spacer
definition of etirement / definition of e-tirement / what does it mean to e-tire to an e-cottage
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of free agent infrastructure / what is the independent worker infrastructure
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of horizontal loyalty / what is horizontal loyalty within the organization
spacer

spacer
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)dashand, 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.
spacer

spacer
definition of independent worker / what is an independent worker / what is a free-lance
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of just-in-time / what is just-in-time politics
spacer

spacer
horizontal loyalty:

...

spacer
definition of free agent infrastructure / what is the independent worker infrastructure
spacer

spacer
define nanocorp ... the smallest of small enterprises, e.g. Economic Development Services
spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
what does it mean to peter-out as an employee and take charge of one's work life
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of profitization / what is profitization / definition of profitize / what is profit
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of I am pulling my hair out / definition of I pull my hair out / what is a hair pulling
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
is there a relationship between tailorism, the peter-out principle, and independent workers
spacer

spacer
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.
spacer

spacer
definition of soho / definition of in-home office / definition of e-commute office
spacer

spacer

spacer
link: .network help / intro

spacer

title: Independent Entrepreneurs
[Appendix E]
a page in the .network glossary

go back / dictionaries and glossaries (.network library) / page up
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
about us / copyrights © and all rights reserved / 12/12/2009