Our corporations and administrations are dominated by a clique of people who, because they are symbolically interested, "give 100%" and expect others to do the same.
We can speak of a social class in charge of organizing work:
"Capital chooses a management team to represent it on the spot [in the corporations. Executives are meant] to supervise and organize the labors of the working population" (Harry Braverman USA, 1974, p. 405)
For Braverman, the people who really count in this team are those whose managerial positions offer them "a share in the surplus produced in the corporation, and thus is intended to attach them to the success or failure of the corporation and give them a ‘management stake’, even if a small one." (pp.405–6, original emphasis)
What if all workplace cultures were as well-crafted as #VideoGames❓
The Engagement Game 📚 shows how organizational culture and leadership can be super-charged by applying the same principles that a #GameDev applies when creating games.
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Free to Obey
How the Nazis Invented Modern Management
In this fascinating book, Johann Chapoutot, one of France's most brilliant historians, traces the profound links between Nazism and the principles of modern corporate management, our definitions of success, and a concept of personal freedom.
📌 Google Research, American Airlines, and Breakthrough Energy have collaborated to develop #forecast maps for contrail formation (the white trails seen behind flying airplanes) using artificial intelligence based on #data such as satellite images, meteorological data, and flight paths.
🤔 How could the use of contrail #forecast maps evolve in the field of #aviation navigation and air traffic #management policies, and what work, economic, social, and environmental challenges might emerge from this evolution?
🤔 What could be the consequences of using #AI in reducing contrail formation on potential climate impact disparities among different airlines or regions of the world?
What to change? - What to change to? - How to change?
Have you ever heard of these questions? Not? Then it is time for another book on your shelf. If you know „The Phoenix Project“, you might like the format of „The goal“ from Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
It’s a super interesting novel about a plant that is in trouble and how it avoids to get closed.
For those in research or innovation spaces, (including open source),
What is your method for assigning tasks, of different priority and involvement levels.
How do you differentiate between presenting volunteer/open that have one set of quality standards, vs other quality standards for different tasks-roles-responsibilities?
What does your current setup look like?