Comments on: Democratizing Business http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/ Exploring the hidden potential of your employees Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:05:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Welcome Fast Company Readers! | Hidden Mojo http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-681 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:44:25 +0000 http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-681 [...] Democratizing Business (this sums up our philosophy on the future of organizational design) [...] […] Democratizing Business (this sums up our philosophy on the future of organizational design) […]

]]> by: kareem http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-598 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:38:34 +0000 http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-598 Democracy is an end unto itself, but I'm not convinced that, were it a less effective method of building a business than, say, a command-and-control model, that it would be something businesses ought to do. Society, yes. Businesses, no. That said, it does appear that democracy in the workplace is an ultimately more profitable way to grow a business... so giddeyup! Thanks for sharing, Rodney. Kareem Democracy is an end unto itself, but I’m not convinced that, were it a less effective method of building a business than, say, a command-and-control model, that it would be something businesses ought to do. Society, yes. Businesses, no.

That said, it does appear that democracy in the workplace is an ultimately more profitable way to grow a business… so giddeyup!

Thanks for sharing, Rodney.

Kareem

]]> by: Rodney North http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-559 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:55:49 +0000 http://www.hiddenmojo.com/2006/09/democratizing-business/#comment-559 Note: I've had the pleasure of talking & corresponding w/Traci many times now since the publication of the afore-mentioned op-ed, and am hoping people pay attention to what she is saying. And as "citizen" of a democratic workplace (a worker cooperative in Massachusetts - a state with a wee bit of a democratic pedigree) I know very well how very viable this model is. But here I'd like to add that way beyond the matter of motivation there is the more profound matter that democracy is an end unto itself. When our forebearers were debating and crafting the Constitution they did do it so as to create a _motivated_ public, but rather because democracy, ie a shared form of collective self-determination and decision-making, is something we owe ourselves and one another. Note: I’ve had the pleasure of talking & corresponding w/Traci many times now since the publication of the afore-mentioned op-ed, and am hoping people pay attention to what she is saying.

And as “citizen” of a democratic workplace (a worker cooperative in Massachusetts - a state with a wee bit of a democratic pedigree) I know very well how very viable this model is.

But here I’d like to add that way beyond the matter of motivation there is the more profound matter that democracy is an end unto itself. When our forebearers were debating and crafting the Constitution they did do it so as to create a _motivated_ public, but rather because democracy, ie a shared form of collective self-determination and decision-making, is something we owe ourselves and one another.

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