If you want to get your message across, you have to cause discomfort to the organization you want to listen. Workers asking nicely won't change anything. Busi

If you want to get your message across, you have to cause discomfort to the organization you want to listen. Workers asking nicely won't change anything. Businesses (and shareholders) care about one thing: profits. So the only way to get your message across is by affecting the one thing they care about. Here's an illustrative passage from Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky: > Recently the head of a corporation showed me the blueprint of a new plant and pointed to a large ground-floor area: “Boy, have we got an architect who is with it!” he chuckled. “See that big hall? That’s our sit-in room! When the sit-inners come they’ll be shown in and there will be coffee, T.V., and good toilet facilities — they can sit here until hell freezes over.[1][2] Their goal was to eliminate the pain their business experienced so there was no pressure to change behavior. As to your second example, Ford raised wages because he had a problem with high turnover, because working conditions were bad.[3] [1] http://www.mlsite.net/blog/?p=1665 http://www.mlsite.net/blog/?p=1665 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals [3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story...