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That’s called an oligarchy in politics. Can’t say it’s a great operational model
by zaphirplane 6y ago
That’s called an oligarchy in politics. Can’t say it’s a great operational model
- Spooky23 6y agoIt makes sense where you have a lot of stakeholders. Would you ever debate an approach to doing something in front of a customer? Likewise, if a meeting is where you adjudicate something, you need consensus to focus on the key issue, whatever that is. Otherwise, you’re likely to head into some rabbit hole that results in no decision.
- zaphirplane 6y agoNo, We’ve already discussed this and we think your approach is wrong
- sarakayakomzin 6y ago>Would you ever debate an approach to doing something in front of a customer? the dumbest take i've ever seen in economics
- bww 6y agoYou've probably noticed that there aren't really any successful companies that are run as democracies. There are good reasons for that.
- alexashka 6y agoYou can't get to a better future by demanding that it have existed in the past. That doesn't make any sense. Now I'd really like to hear these 'good reasons' and what makes them 'good'. Before you list them, please try and apply them to 'why should we abandon slavery'. If your arguments work for both instances, please explain why we ever abandoned slavery, since clearly there are 'good reasons' for owning slaves, so much so that Americans fought a civil war over it last I checked.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoA word of advice, injecting such topics needlessly distracts from the actual point you’re trying to make.
- tacitusarc 6y agoUnless the discussion is about slavery, in which case, fair enough.
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- whatshisface 6y agoCo-ops?
- rakoo 6y agoI don't know enough about co-ops but it seems to me they not only redefine the power structure, they also redefine what success (for themselves) is and the means to reach it. Unfortunately ou can't directly compare the two.
- nunie123 6y agoCo-ops are usually a republic, not a democracy. People still have specific roles, and those roles have authority to make specific decisions without getting a majority vote for that decision.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoThere still is a semi-democratic process (barring large-scale network effects for the sake of discussion): whether a given person chooses to become (or stay) a customer. People vote for or against a company’s products/services with their money.
- matwood 6y agoYou're assuming it's the small group of people who make the final decision without additional input. Just because a smaller group of people refine and vet an idea, doesn't mean they force it on everyone else. The problem being solved is that most ideas are not good, so any single person with an idea looks to vet it among a trusted group of advisors/peers. If this group is too large, it's hard to deal with the noise, too small and it may kill or ok an idea when it shouldn't be. After refinement with the smaller group, an idea now has enough substance to bring to the larger group and hopefully not waste their time. A simple example this process helps avoid would be pulling together the full group, presenting an idea, and then legal killing it with their first comment. Everyones time was just wasted since the idea as presented had legal issues and needed more refinement.