Your contract’s real term is how quickly it can be terminated.
Tag: alignment
Growing up in the 1970s, parents urged their children to go to school, get a degree, and then work for a great company. Even kids who went into factory jobs heard a similar version of this story. You’d be set for life — the security — or so the story went. Then came “right sizing” […]
Yin and Yang. Positive and negative. Heads or tails.
Two sides, inseparably linked.
Just like the far less obvious provisions of any agreement: term and termination.
Physician alignment is all the rage. But of course, as I’ve written before, hospitals use the line “align” when they’re actually a lyin’ to you. That is, unless the meaning of the word align actually is “to control.” However, as is the case with much propaganda, there is a kernel of truth within the concept […]
It’s said that Henry Ford adopted the modern production line, with each worker focusing on a part instead of assembling a whole, from his observations of the way that Chicago slaughterhouses “dressed” pigs. On October 1, 1908, the first Model T rolled off the production line. Available, famously, in any color you wanted as long […]
