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If so, I find it even more disturbing that the workforce would have limited interest in the long-term success of their team or their company.

• kls 14y ago
  Enterprise America is very different from small company America, that is why I made mention of talent retention, it is a tangential but related conversation but it does not really fit in the space of what the article is lamenting. I have worked in both, I prefer small business America because their is a stronger focus on quality and individualism but sometimes the enterprise is where the bills are paid. Those of us not in the valley have to split our times between what we would like to do and lucrative contracts that the likes of companies like IBM provide. The interesting part is it has created a culture of something akin to special forces teams, where groups of caravan style freelancers who have worked together in ad-hoc groups tend to come together on contracts many who have worked together many times over the years and yet other who have worked with others that you know. So sometimes you will go into a contract with guys that you don't know, but you know of them so the relationship develops quickly because it is like you know them. They are very talented individuals, but it's almost a mercenary mentality. They do quality work, but it is almost a robotic professionalism.