Acerca da criação de emprego

"Where the US will find growth and jobs":
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"From 1995 to 2005, service sectors generated all net job growth in high-income economies and 85 percent of net new jobs in emerging economies. Low-tech green jobs in local services, such as improving building insulation and replacing obsolete heating and cooling equipment, could generate more jobs than would be created through the development of renewable technologies."
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"Revitalizing the American Dream" com uma lista de 16 passos para fomentar a criação de startups nos Estados Unidos.
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"Given our anemic and largely jobless economic recovery, this is more important than ever. Young companies -- those younger than six years old -- provide the bulk of new jobs; in 2007, they accounted for 64 percent of them, according to a 2009 survey by the Kauffman Foundation that looked at start-up formation since the 1970s. John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, came to a similar conclusion in a more recent study: His research found that start-ups account for only 3 percent of total U.S. employment but almost 20 percent of gross job creation."

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"The Four Horsemen of the Job-pocalypse"

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Seth Godin em "Linchpin" diz tudo o que há a dizer sobre a crise na criação de emprego:

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"Over time, drip by drip, uear by year, the manual was written, the procedures were set, and people were hired to follow the rules. The organization gets extremely efficient at producing a certain output a certain way... and then competition or change or technology arrives and the old rules aren't particularly useful, the old efficiencies not so profitable.

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In the face of a threat like this, the natural reaction is to try to become more efficient. (Moi ici: é o que o mainstream quer dizer quando fala em aumentar a produtividade e só pensa em reduzir custos... ainda não perceberam que a eficácia é mais importante que a eficiência)

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Of course, this isn't the answer. Doing more of what you were doing, but more obediently, more measurably, and more averagely, will not solve the problem, it will make it worse.

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Our economy has reached a logical conclusion. The race to make average stuff for average people in huge quantitues is almost over. We're hitting an asymptote, a natural ceiling for how cheaply and how fast we can deliver uninspired work.

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Becoming more average, more quick, and more cheap is not as productive as it used to be.

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So, what's left is to make - to give - art."