I came upon an interesting post today at Leading Questions on what Ed Brenegar calls "an emerging culture of business as an Edgeconomy where light beats heavy; open beats closed; free beats paid; and, good beats evil". Ed quotes from Bubblegeneration author Umair Haque and his numerous posts on this emerging culture. Here is the money quote:
What matters in the edge culture is context. Every client, every customer, every vendor exists in a different context. Haque refers to these contexts as micro cultures. This is certainly my experience. Not a single one of my clients are the same, have the exact same issues, and the projects have never been exactly the same.
As a result, what happens is that I come with a tool box instead of a formula. We decide what the project needs, and then select the tools appropriate to the it. This is the opposite of a one-size fits all formula that squeezes the client into a box that doesn't fit their situation. For some clients, this is a strange experience because they are used to buying a standardized product instead of a customized solution.
I don't know if any of these thought are particularly ground breaking or "emerging" as this trend has been developing for 8 or so years but I do know these ideas are significant and Ed does an excellent job of succinctly identifying and describing them. The culture of multiple context/micro cultures and a tool box vs. formula approach are HUGE in talent acquisition and talent relationship management. Here are a few quick thoughts on how this "emerging" culture impacts the world of recruiting.
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