Empresas sin jefes

[_nobody_]

Una empresa sin jefes parece el paraíso. No tener que aguantar a esa persona que cobra más que nosotros, nos dice lo que tenemos que hacer y que, en muchas ocasiones, consideramos menos lista que nosotros. Curiosamente ese es el objetivo de muchas cooperativas, librarse de la relación laboral entre empleado y jefe.

Cooincidiendo con que Fagor se encuentra ante problemas financieros y operativos, quizás la idea de empresas sin jefes parecen más utópicoas. Pero en el mundo hay ejemplos de empresas de jerarquía plana que son completamente funcionales como el W.L. Gore (el fabricante de Gore-Tex) o GE Aviation ¿Hay esperanza para las empresas sin jefes?

http://www.elblogsalmon.com/management/ ... -sin-jefes

[Xell]

Valve and The Emerging Knowledge Worker Manifesto
http://www.innovatini.com/valve-and-the ... manifesto/

Many corporate managers, reviewing the above, are surely astonished. And more astonished still to learn that Valve company’s Founder, Gabe Newell, candidly describes the company as operating under the principles of anarcho-syndicalism. Yes- the same anarcho-syndicalism mentioned in this Monty Python skit below. And as with Monty Python’s “annoying peasant” who regards centralized, hierarchical structure as repressing , Valve’ s culture regards the C&C structure as repressing innovation of knowledge workers.

El vídeo que enlaza, en español:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04b0WP5wiQ

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"The current system of corporate governance is bunk. Capitalist corporations are on the way to certain extinction. Replete with hierarchies that are excedingly wasteful of human talent and energies, intertwined with toxic finance, co-dependent with political structures that are losing democratic legitimacy fast, a form of post-capitalist, decentralised corporation will, sooner or later, emerge.

The eradication of distribution and marginal costs, the capacity of producers to have direct access to billions of customers instantaneously, the advances of open source communities and mentalities, all these fascinating developments are bound to turn the autocratic Soviet-like megaliths of today into curiosities that students of political economy, business studies etc will marvel at in the future, just like school children marvel at dinosaur skeletons at the Natural History museum."

Los libertarianos parece que se sienten amenazados con el anarcosindicalismo (o lo que alguno de ellos entiende como tal:

Anarcho-Syndicalism: A Recipe for Ruin
http://mises.org/daily/5590/AnarchoSynd ... e-for-Ruin

The libertarian view of Varoufakis’ inciting pronouncement pales against another (not mutually exclusive) version of the future workplaces, one more synergistic with a digital economy. Consider that the anarcho-syndicalist culture of a Valve isn’t quite complete: In its pure form, the owners of an anarcho-syndicalist organization transfer the capital, the ownership, to the workers. Yup – there’s still a more open structure that might cause even a Valve to “Shut TF up and run”: Guilds.

In other words, large-scale enterprize, may and need to adapt – much as Peter Drucker describes below. "The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution in the 21st Century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER". There’s no doubt: Everyone could use a tad more anarchy in their tea. The very important question is: How much anarchy is too much? How much (my innovators of the “One Day Employee Exploration Day”) is too little?