Major overhaul: throw out the boss

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
http://www.actionheronetwork.net/

So what can i do ?
watch this

the corporation DVD

then watch this

the take dvD


and read these


O.K. i watched and read the stuff now what?

 

O.K. i watched and read the stuff now what?

Step 1: get the workers out of corporations
and into working cooperatives
(encourage them into building these up themselves
they have more experience than they think.
check out the blog comments below)

Step 2: create cooperatism style workplaces like seen in the take, and link these work places together in an ithaca hour dollars style community.
So that the coops mutually systain one another.

Then, add step 3:
support them with your consumption and "city import replacing".
(dark age ahead chapter 4: science abandoned p90)

current work places have a repressive primary school feel to them
how about building workplaces based on
waldorf or frennet or montessory school systems?

interestingly, there's an entire field of study on what's called "self-organizing systems" pioneered by the santa fe institute... they have determined that the tendency to self-organize is an inherent element of complex, living systems... i have used this principle extensively in my organization design work and have found it to be every bit as fundamental to human behavior as the research says it is... in one of my earlier lives as a "boss," i trained the 32 employees in my charge to perform in a "manager-less" environment in which they took care of literally all aspects of the unit's operation while i stood aside and concentrated on running interference or, as i used to say, holding an umbrella over their heads to keep out the rain of shit... blogger at alter.net Back in the eighties, I became aware of Ilya Prigogine and the study of emergence, self-organizing systems and systems far from equilibrium. This is all very interesting and highly technical stuff, and it challengest strict mechanistic, reductionist, hierarchical and deterministic thinking. It smacks of the heresy of teleologic thought by alluding to complex systems being pulled into existance by themselves, by their own bootstraps. It is, as you have pointed out, an apt model for thinking about the complexity of the workplace. And it is true that competent people who know their jobs and who are given latittude, encouragement and support do not need anybody to tell them what to do or when somebody is doing poorly and needs correction or replacement." blogger at alter.net "Actually, some bosses I've had WERE three-year-olds. Years ago when I worked in the theme-park division of a very large entertainment company, my department's manager was "kicked upstairs." The executive "leadership" either forgot to replace him or couldn't find a candidate (i.e., sucker), and we operated for nearly two years without a boss. No one could tell the difference. The department ran as efficiently and the work got done. There was one very important difference, though: everyone was more relaxed. Need I say more? Years later the same company had become more bureaucratic, to the point of sclerosis, and people were being reprimanded and fired for insignificant reasons just so managers could look tough, feed their egos, or kiss the right asses. Creativity was lost, the product went down the toilet, and the company's stock to this day languishes at less than 50% of its high point. Need I say more?" blogger at alter.net

Learn from Japan "Japan managed to evade a colonial imposed dark age after Comodore Matthew Perry brought his gunboats to tokyo in 1853, demanding that the country open its doors to trade with the west. Previously, Japan had adopted a forteress mentality, protecting itself from contact with the dangerous outside world and its cultural disruptions. It continued to protect itself even while it was catching up with the west and in the process transforming itself from an agrarian culture to an ingenuity- based , post agrarian society. Throughout the transformation, the society took immense care to cherish and nurture its own famriliar cultural characteristics. It restored its figure head emporer, glorified the ideals of its samurai, maintained its shriness, and above all cultivated its arts and the highly developed estetic values they embodied. In sum, japan assimilated the western ways into its own culture rather than allowing its own culture to become irrelevant while it was emulating the west.(..)It took from its foreing contacts good and bad, what it wanted to assimlate, without losing cultural memory, identity and competence." - Jane Jacobs, Dark age ahead

 

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