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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. Amazon has its below-the-radar " Mechanical Turk " workplace market.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.