A estabilidade é mesmo uma ilusão (parte II)

Parte 0 e parte I

"The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the American economy has more than twenty-one million “non-employer” businesses - operations without any paid employees. These include everything from electricians to computer consultants to graphic designers. Although these microenterprises account for only a modest portion of America’s gross domestic product, they now constitute the majority of businesses in the United States.
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The research firm IDC estimates that 30 percent of American workers now work on their own and that by 2015, the number of nontraditional workers worldwide (freelancers, contractors, consultants, and the like) will reach 1.3 billion. The sharpest growth will be in North America, but Asia is expected to add more than six hundred million new soloists in that same period.
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Some analysts project that in the United States, the ranks of these independent entrepreneurs may grow by sixty-five million in the rest of the decade and could become a majority of the American workforce by 2020. One reason is the influence of the eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old generation as it takes a more prominent economic role. According to research by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 54 percent of this age cohort either wants to start their own business or has already done so.
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In sixteen Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries- including France, Mexico, and Sweden - more than 90 percent of businesses now have fewer than ten employees. In addition, the percentage of people who are either a “nascent entrepreneur or owner-manager of a new business” is far higher in markets such as China, Thailand, and Brazil than in the United States or the United Kingdom."

Recordar o que se escreve por aqui acerca de: Mongo; artesãos; prosumers e antifragilidade.
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Trecho retirado de "To sell is human : the surprising truth about moving others" de Daniel Pink.