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I think qualified leadership is extremely important, but the leaders should be from the ranks of the experienced employees. Id opt for a sorta royal triumvirate kind of setup over the CEO model though. A committe seems too slow to work.
And collectively, they should own the business and vote on big decisions.
Not so hard. Generally speaking, the ESOP model.
Or you could just have a co-op.
People on the floor together are usually pretty quick to react. It’s waiting on a leader to show up or make a decision that slows things down.
People on the floor together are usually pretty quick to react.
We live on different planets.
On my planet, people can’t even decide on the date of the Christmas party, let alone important stuff like business direction or R&D priorities.
Have the people on the floor of your company ever actually been given the option to decide the business direction or R&D priorities?
My dad said something like this a couple months back. He didn’t think workers could run a business. When I pointed out all the bad decisions I’ve seen my bosses make, especially the ones made over the
injectionsobjections of workers, he didn’t have much of a response.People believe things emotionally. (All of us are susceptible to this, sadly.)
Edit: fix strange autocorrect of injections instead of objections
especially the ones made over the injections of workers
Well there’s the problem! As good as it sounds, you actually lose a lot of the nutrition when employees are processed into injectable paste. Ultra processed workers are bad for you.
Eat them raw as capitalism intended!
The problem with groups isn’t that they make bad decisions, it’s that they struggle to make any kind of decision.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a boss, an owner, or a rep, someone has to take responsibility or nothing ever happens.
Ever watched six people try and Schedule a D&D session? 🤣
Usually some people will take initiative and some people will delegate their responsibilities. Form committees , that sort of thing.
Committees, the pinnacle of efficiency.
Yup. Pretty much standard stuff. Before you know it, here we are.
They can make decisions if they learn how to work as a team. It is possible.
I’ve not witnessed any examples in my time, what am I missing?
Interacting with people who haven’t lived their entire lives as boot lickers. Or failing to see all the times people to manage. Ttrpg groups for example do occasionally occur. They have been played before.
First steps not being unsteady is weird. Everybody’s gonna fuck up the first few times. There exist tools to help, though I’m more a solitary creature and do not have any bookmarked.
Yeah it would be great if all those “job creators” could make some new ones instead of slacking off.
/sj
Just for context, unemployment is at an all time low in most countries and there’s a labor shortage in a bunch of them.
As someone who has been a grunt, been a skilled labourer in high demand, been middle management and a small business owner operator can confidently say that the race to the bottom is littered with exploitation and leeches all the way down 😂
The existing business ecosystem systems are inadequate to operate outside of the capitalist incentive and public service systems pieced together to work in tandem with the “free market” are equally pitiful at balancing efficiency and equality.
We my friends are so very doomed lol fractured societies in competition at every level of organization compelled to act in their own interest while our collective demise looms.
But my therapist says I have negative tendencies so maybe it’s not so grim lol
Are bosses part of the proletariat?
Depends on what’s a boss.
As for me, my manager/boss works the same hours I do. I don’t see her as not being a fellow worker even if she has a degree of authority over me.
The CEO of my last company, was some rich American billionaire- so not them.
Yes. But no.
Fuck off.
Thanks for this nuanced and elaborated contribution. I think all of us learned a lot from it
What are you saying tavarish
