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Week 5: Day 1 – The Hoxby Collective

Previously known as the Huckleberry Partners, the Hoxby Collective is a community based approach to the new concept of individual workflow. It is a collective of freelancers and solopreneurs at varying stages of their own adventure of going it alone.

What makes this model unique, thrilling, successful and growing, is the core concept of “give and get“. While everyone in the collective is independent, everyone makes a commitment to come together on a project by project basis to collaborate for a better, higher quality output for the client. Everyone pitches in their respective talent, experience and skill set, and then delivers exceptional results!

The concept of ‘give and get’ is that everyone can benefit from working together. A particular member may be successful at landing a brief or project, yet, cannot deliver on certain aspects. Rather than losing the project, the need is brought to the collective to complement the missing pieces at an increased level of quality, professionalism and delivery – together.

Because everyone is both contributing (give) as well as delivering (get), the sum total for the individual as well as the community, is a higher rate of value that can be won, accepted, developed and delivered.

Another core concept of the Hoxby Collective by virtue of the community aspect is the realization and evangelizing the idea of the individual workstyle. Everyone has an individual style of working, when and how one’s best work is being delivered – entirely independent of a particular location or time window in any given day. The movement embraces productivity before all else.

You should absolutely head on over to The Hoxby Collective and experience it for yourself!

Week 1 Day 1: Stepping over the edge

It’s been quite a while in the making, inclusive of much deliberating, soul searching, questioning sanity and feasibility, after all there is always the family to look out for.

But today is the day! I am stepping over the edge!

This will be my log to record thoughts, the ups and downs, the wins and the failures, the learning opportunities, and everything else in between. As such, it will be a rather random collection of things, very much a work in progress, trials and tribulations and 180 degree turns.

I invite you to come along on the journey, I have no idea where it will take me!