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"companies are schwag"

[Speaking of schwag, I've made a commemorative "Scoble's Leaving" ceramic tile drinks coaster over at Cafepress.]

Doc Searls on Robert Scoble's recent departure from Microsoft:

One sad thing for Microsoft about losing Scoble was that they couldn't pay him what he was worth to the company, which will remain incalculably large — even after he's gone. In fact, there is no HR metric for figuring the worth of a worker like Scoble, whose value to Microsoft was due more to his work outside the company's walls than inside them. Ironically, Robert Scoble may turn out to have been the most human resource Microsoft ever had.

Their loss, most definitely.

I like Microsoft. I'd go work for them, if they were ever short of a few disruptive bloggers, and the price was very, very right. I doubt they would hire me, though. My days of being governed by HR metrics are long gone.

Posted by hugh macleod at June 12, 2006 9:06 PM | TrackBack