Starting a Worker Cooperative From Scratch • Three Years Later
A history of work trauma.
Author: Joel
“Is This Even a Coop?” A Q&A About Worker Ownership Without the Headaches
From time to time I have pretty long Q&A sessions with Chatty G to learn about various topics. I thought this conversation about legal worker ownership was worth publishing.
Consulting Firms Should Be Worker Cooperatives
Most consulting firms operate on outdated assumptions about ownership, hierarchy, and where value actually comes from. This post challenges all of that and makes the case for worker cooperatives as the model that actually fits how consulting really works. Based on lived experience, not theory.
Starting a Worker Cooperative from Scratch • Two Years Later
A month-by-month breakdown about what I learned at Cooptimize in 2023.
Economic Socialism is Teaching Me What a Free Market Actually Looks Like
My perspective on capitalism and free markets shifted after forming a worker cooperative. I highlight the flaws in traditional capitalist consulting firms, such as opaque agreements, lack of competition, and secret salaries. I advocate for more transparency, freedom to compete, and the end of restrictive employment agreements to promote innovation and change in the professional services industry.
Agile vs Waterfall for ERP Implementations • Everyone is Wrong
Every now and then, I’ll see the ol’ LinkedIn argument about whether Agile or Waterfall methodology is better for ERP. It goes something like this in the comments: The Fatal … Continue reading Agile vs Waterfall for ERP Implementations • Everyone is Wrong
Using Power BI Deployment Pipelines for Report Workspaces
Deployment pipelines are great, almost a requirement for managing Datasets and Dataflows. It’s important to have centrally managed data models that can be developed and promote to Test and Production. … Continue reading Using Power BI Deployment Pipelines for Report Workspaces
Starting a Consulting Firm Worker Cooperative From Scratch • One Year Later
A lot of people have interest in starting a business but are unsure of what it looks like. Every company is different, but this is what it looked like for … Continue reading Starting a Consulting Firm Worker Cooperative From Scratch • One Year Later
Reporting on Data with a Start and End Date in Power BI • Date Concepts for CRM and HR
DAX formula and Data modeling techniques for reporting across date ranges.
Use Power Automate HTTP Connector to Publish .pbix File Using the Power BI API
This will describe how to Publish a file from SharePoint to PowerBI.com using Power Automate HTTP Connector to call the API. You might end up on this blog after looking … Continue reading Use Power Automate HTTP Connector to Publish .pbix File Using the Power BI API
Dynamics 365 My Sales Power BI Content OR The Reason Salespeople Don’t Update Data In CRM Is They Get Minimum Value Back
We now have our first open source Power BI Report available on Github. The Report is a “My Sales” experience for Dynamics 365 Sales.
Fixing Microsoft’s Power BI Content for Dynamics 365 Sales
As part of Cooptimize’s open source initiatives, we are building better standard Dynamics 365 content, beginning with Sales Analytics.
Joel Leichty 