Build A Bigger Life

Robert Dickie III is the President of Crown, having been in the military, worked in the private sector, and is now focused entirely on making others’ lives better. Bob recently released The Leap: Launching a Full-Time Job in Our Part-Time Economy in an effort to help people transition into the changing world of work. Many of Bob’s friends had been downsized and let go from automotive manufacturing in Flint, MI and thought they’d just be hired back on the line. As he answered questions, consulted with professional peers, and started coalescing all of the information on his blog, Bob was called by a publisher asking if he could put a book together from the content. The idea that work is changing is beginning to pick up. Some people are calling it GIG-enomics as people cobble together full-time work from 3 or 4 different sources. Some of the things changing the world of work today are: An advance in technology Rapid pace of globalization Local and Global Regulations In 2013, 77% of the jobs that were created wer