Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017)
by ExactoKnight on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:13PM
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We should get rid of this whole "C-" idea anyways.
Comes from rigid social ideas about how to organize companies, that tends to push down the importance of product and technology roles in favour of giving more social power to roles that in practice actually contribute way less.
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017)
by jadedhacker on Sunday February 25, 2018 @09:38PM
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"Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon"
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793914564966
Just read this and it was pretty interesting. Appearently in the studied group of organizations, coops are about as efficient as capitalist businesses but without lay offs and extreme inequality. There was some lower job satisfaction possibly due to higher expectations. There was a small efficiency benefit in some customer service oriented organizations.
Try sci-hub if you don't have institutional access. ;)
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017)
by e_b on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:15PM
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Mondragon is run as a normal corporation, mostly. It's just named differently.
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017)
by jadedhacker on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:40PM
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Can you elaborate? Some of that is treated in the linked article. They do comparisons between the coop, limited coop, and conventional portions of their sporting goods and supermarket chains.
Re:When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017)
by BenoitEssiambre on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:10PM
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Yeah plus following a few links to his other posts, the guy rants about arrogant jerks while constantly using arrogant jerkish language. It seems like a lot of his criticism might be projection.
Grand words with strong advice, but at the end I'm not sure if the topic point "when C-level?" is any more clear in my head.
I apparently need to be:
- Tired, but not so tired I can't survive the C- interviews
- Willing to delegate, but know what stuff is OK to let go
- Honest
Yet these seem more like qualities I just need in hiring. I'm tired of, or not good at, doing X job. I'm OK with not personally doing X. I tell the truth and expect new hire doing X to give it back. If all 3: hire someone for job X.
The main version for C- still seems to be, "the VCs are becoming a huge thorn in my side" whether I admit they have a point or I just want them to calm down.
Perhaps I'm just far too cynical about C- value these days. "We're strongly pushing to accelerate our core strengths and metrics while increasing overall investor value."