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Why do we accept giving up all of our rights at work?
I’m reading Beyond the Corporation by David Erdal at the moment and so have been thinking a lot about employee ownership. It’s making me wonder why we accept so little in the way of rights at work than...
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Obituary from the future: Public Companies. 1602 – 20XX
After a long struggle with their terminal condition, the last public companies finally passed away when the New York stock exchange – the last of its kind in the world – closed for the final time...
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The 4 most important things I have learnt about the future of business
Here are the big lessons I have learnt from the four books that have been most influential to me in my career in business. 1. Being nice is the best approach to business. I began my business career...
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Building a better economy with more employee ownership
Iain Hasdell, Chief Executive of the Employee Ownership Association has written an excellent call to action for government to facilitate building a better economy with more employee ownership. In the...
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Innovating business ownership models
Something I like doing for fun is sketching pie charts of ownership models for businesses. Yes, I am a business geek! In the standard model today, the ownership of a business is something separate from...
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Video: We the owners
Check out this trailer for up-coming documentary We The Owners, about employee ownership. Really gives a sense of what employee ownership means on an emotional level. It’s hard to fail to see why this...
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How to protect a great democratic company from destruction
WorldBlu’s list of the 10 principles that come together to make a democratic workplace is one of the pages I link to the most from this blog. It served as a guide in making my previous company more...
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Going beyond the inverted org chart
The traditional org chart has the CEO and directors at the top, with power cascading downwards through managers and eventually to the people at the bottom who actually do the work and create all of the...
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The state we’re in and the call for a new economy
I’m at the Imagine 2012 conference on cooperative economics in Quebec City. Here are some thoughts after the first full day. It’s a pretty frightening picture, folks. But there is hope. The industrial...
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Cooperatives need bottom-up thinking
I’m at the early stages of working on an idea to see many more cooperative businesses in Brighton. I’m at the International Summit of Coops in Quebec to learn more and make some new connections in this...
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