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Gig Economy

‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

The ‘UBER’ fever has caught North America. There has been an emergence of the “gig” economy, which is essentially an economy characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work, as opposed to permanent jobs. UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel […]

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Innovation

Corporate Career or Entrepreneurial Path?

I am a bit of a late bloomer in some ways – certainly academically. At the age of 48, I decided, after a life spent in business of all kinds, to go back to school, obtain my EMBA, and focus on an entrepreneurial career. It’s not really that delaying my master’s was a choice. When […]