Freelancers can solve the corporate innovation conundrum
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Freelancers can solve the corporate innovation conundrum
Using freelancers can solve the challenges 2020 has in store
While startups have been hot since the early 2000s, the last decade has seen many large corporations, long past the days of actually being considered startups, embrace the startup mentality. With "move fast and break things" being the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley over the past two decades, tech companies have sought to innovate faster and yield greater returns more rapidly than traditional timelines dictated.
With shareholder expectations on the line, companies have sought to distill the startup mentality into a few ideals and mimic those tactics which have made startups so successful.
The problem is that while having the startup mentality and pace in a larger company is sexy as an ideal, the reality is that "move fast and break things" does not work well with many established company norms and there is no place where this is more apparent than hiring.
Talent is the weak link of innovation