The Power of the Very Small Business

There are more than 26 million companies in the United States with fewer than 20 employees. The vast majority of those businesses have fewer than five employees, and often only one.

There are about to be a whole lot more of these very small businesses. Interestingly, it’s because big businesses are also going to become radically smaller.

Long before robots replace manual laborers and algorithms replace even the smartest knowledge workers, the disruption of the traditional economics that encouraged scaling up with more employees will be turned on its head.

Which means, a lot of people are about to become involuntarily unemployable.

Brian Clark’s …read more