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…now that knowledge workers are becoming the key employees, a company also needs to be a desirable employer to be successful.

An employer has no business with a subordinate’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for specific performance, and for nothing else.

…if you fail to adapt, no one – not your employer, not the government – is going to catch you when you fall.

Many people in transition… stumble onto the fact that they derive much of their sense of identity from their title and employer and that such overidentification with any institution can lead to stunted growth in other arenas.

…the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own.