The Caring Capitalist: Managing without managers

"The organizational pyramid is the cause of too much corporate evil because the tip is too far from the base." -Ricardo Semler

Of course this is one of the few and far between examples of corporations where workers have a say in many organizational procedures. It's a little bit sweet to hear of these things, because you don't hear very much of this going on in the business world. Of course I'm talking about employee involvement and democracy in the decision making of the firm.

I mean, how often do you hear of the employees able to overturn the boss on if the company should acquire another company or not. This kind of makes me think: If more companies were like this, would they be run a lot better, and corporate greed eliminated?

Semler was able to drastically change the concept of management and turn it literally upside down. It's kind of far fetched when you're reading it, and personally I won't fully believe it until I actually see it in my eyes. But in the back of my head, isn't this the kind of place everyone dreams of working at? Profit sharing, no dress code, setting own salaries and hours, having the right to make company decisions. This is really cool. Abolishing rules and regulations would not work at a company with the average worker. Semler and his partners most likely hire only the most responsible people

Common sense in the workplace is something that Semler puts a big emphasis on. I mean doesn't that just make common sense! haha, well I feel like a lot of companies don't do this at all...

The most important thing I got from this article is the Woolly Mammoth example: dont' get caught up in too much planning of tasks, delegating, authority sharing. Act with INSTINCT; hunters and gatherers didn't have days to plan a mammoth attack, when they saw it they had to go hunt it immediately. Or else they die.