Slack (Searchable Log of All Communications and Knowledge).

Companies that employ part-time consultants and for-hire workers often seek specialists with very specific skills whom they can briefly “plug in” to a broader overall project. It’s easier to plug in a specialist whose role and value-add are clear than it is with a generalist whose exact roles and responsibilities may be more ambiguous.

Successful startups do both. They are flexibly persistent: Their founders start companies that are true to their values and vision, yet they remain flexible enough to adapt. They are obsessed with customer feedback, yet they also determine when not to listen to their customers. They draw up loose plans, but they’re also nimble enough to stray from

Searching for a job only when you’re unemployed or unhappy at work has been replaced by the mandate to always be generating opportunities. Networking has been replaced by intelligent network building.

In fact, the word company is derived from the Latin cum and pane, which means “breaking bread together.”[1]

“If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.”

“There is no I in team” is wrong, too. There is an I in team. A team is made up of individuals with different strengths and abilities.

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

Often, it’s when you come in contact with challenges other people find hard but you find easy that you know you’re in possession of a valuable soft asset.