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Gig mindset circles, trickle-up activism, credentials outweigh capabilities, library with a new vocation, overcoming fear

Jane McConnell
Aug 19, 2022
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Thank you for your patience as my month of May break lasted way beyond May! I had knee surgery and took advantage of my surgeon’s recommendation to “take it easy” to really take it easy - by stopping work completely, or nearly. I discovered how much good it does to your mind when you disconnect. I have never done that before for such a long period.

What I’m doing these days

Gig Mindset Circles

My work this month is preparing materials for people who want to bring change to their work cultures and are looking for guidance. Since I published The Gig Mindset Advantage in 2021, people have written to me about how strongly they identified with the gig mindset, asking me how they can bring that kind of work culture into their organization.

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I took up the challenge and am working on a gig mindset circle handbook. It is is made up of simple, open-ended thought-provoking questions to help you guide conversations and includes references to case studies and examples from The Gig Mindset Advantage.

The materials are free, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

My goal is to find people around the world who are interested in creating these circles because they want to bring change within their own organization or help other organizations do so.

Are you interested? You can read more.

Get in touch to explore the idea.


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Did you know about…

Trickle-up activism

The Guardian, August 2022

Bella Lack is a leading voice in the next generation of environmentalists. I discovered her in this article in The Guardian. I really appreciate her analysis of change as “trickle-up activism” – “where young people introduce their elders to new information and slowly, if arduously, convince them to alter lifelong habits.” She believes activism must be redefined and “integrated into many careers and the work of many people. If you’re a lawyer, focus on the eco side. If you’re a chef, curb the impact of the food you’re using.”

Bella Lack: ‘It’s a recognition of the scale of the problem that makes you think: But what can I do?’
Photograph: Kate Peters/The Observer

“Credentials outweigh capabilities” say the robots

Robots are hiding 27 million workers from employers who need them

Market Watch, from October 2021

Photo: Getty Images in MarketWatch

The findings of the 74-page “Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent” (a click downloads the pdf report) come from a study jointly piloted by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the consulting firm Accenture. Its researchers estimate that there are more than 27 million “hidden workers” in America — ones who are unemployed, underemployed or working part time and who are eager to get hired for full-time jobs. The problem is they’re “hidden” from most employers who’d benefit from hiring them. ….This is because of Automated-hiring technology known as Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) that reject countless people from job consideration.

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Library with a new vocation

8 little-known things you can check out from Los Angeles libraries (that aren't books)

The LA Times, August 2022, referencing “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean.

They were picking up tax information and getting tutored in English and checking out movies and tracing their family history. They were sitting in the library, just because it was a pleasant place to sit, and sometimes they were doing things that had nothing to do with the library.— Susan Orlean, “The Library Book”

An image depicting activities to do at the library.
Photo collage by the Los Angeles Times / Getty

In her ode to the fire-ravaged old library in downtown Los Angeles (and to libraries in general), Orlean points out something that’s easy to forget: These beloved literary repositories offer far more than just books. And at the same low price of zero dollars. All you need is a library card. If you don’t have one of those, well, they’re free too.


From Inside Outsider

Inside Outsider is my biweekly newsletter on LinkedIn.

Overcoming fear is a long game

New to me, and inspiring Our fearless flyer in the photo, Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (1848 - 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to show that flying a craft “heavier than air” was possible. He inspired other pioneers, the Wright brothers among others, to go beyond “heavier than air” and advance aviation to real flying machines. He overcame his fears.

Carl Clifford, hang glider- https://www.flickr.com/
photos/nostri-imago/3346467331

From a manager I interviewed about managing fears:

That inner fear, that inner monologue, can sometimes be very loud. That is a personal challenge.”

What some people fear today…

  • Becoming irrelevant, skills no longer needed

  • Becoming financially insecure, unable to pay the bills, buy nice things for our kids

  • Being adrift in a new world where technology, politics and global forces are dominating our lives

What managers need to do…

Managers need to let go. Trust people. Listen to the edges.  This has been said multiple times,  but as André Gide reminded us: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”


Thank you for reading Bold New Breed

What are your takeaways? What have you experienced that you can share with us?

Please share in the comments below, or directly with me via Twitter @netjmc or my website.

You can also request an invitation to join a community of gig mindsetters who share stories, frustrations, accomplishments and new project ideas in a private space.

Check out my book, The Gig Mindset Advantage, available in hardback or digital format from major booksellers worldwide.

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