My mentor, famed consultant Alan Weiss, has written about the three types of innovation (opportunistic, conformist, non-conformist).
I've recently read a couple of articles about how opportunistic innovation is causing a "capitalist ecosystem" to sprout around migrants:
1. At a migrant shelter in NY, the migrants want to work but don't have work permits. Opportunity: Some people rent them bikes and others set up fake delivery accounts on Uber Eats, etc. and "rent" them to migrants for, say 6 weeks. (After the time, they delete the account. On that last day, the migrants tend not to deliver the last order of the day and keep it for themselves 🙂 ).
2. I was reading today about a scuffle at a Chicago Home Depot (which ended up with the security guard shooting the suspect and wounding him). The interesting thing was that the suspect wasn't one of the laborers that crowd the parking lot hoping to get picked for a job. He was there to offer haircuts to the migrants who gather there.
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