Workers feeling empowered and people starting social enterprises where doing good rather than making shareholder profits was one of the most encouraging finds my son Cato Hoeben and I made writing our book The Lifestyle Entrepreneur.
The narrative arc is Cato’s own story of how he left the working world to create his own work and be responsible for how and when he worked without following a boss’s or company decisions on this. Aside from hearing Cato’s experience we interviewed some 30 other people who have set themselves up as entrepreneurs and are making it work, on their terms.
It is very different to the gig economy where you may appear to be working for yourself, but as with Uber there is an overall management in charge and that can mean a very real loss of freedom. If you can succeed as an entrepreneur it is, potentially, a radical way of working which removes power from the workplace and a boss in charge of you.
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