Moonshots
Summary
What if we can create a real Democratic management that allows Employees to "Elect" the C-Level Managers themselves?
Problem
In general CEOs are directly appointed by the company owners and employees have no idea what their new CEO brings to the table and if the person is a direct recruit from anther company then there might be a sudden panic among employees on their new CEO-What benefits they are gonna get from the new CEO etc.
Solution
I don't intend to make this a long story and will try to keep this short. In a situation where the company is looking for new CEO it could possibly pick up Two individuals who are Professional enough to become the Top Boss, the owner of the company could ask the candidates to present their plans to all the employees that may include the benefits employees are bound to get if they elect him, his/her plan on taking the company to the next level etc. employees can then vote for the particular person whom they think would be capable enough to lead their company.
This system of employees deciding their CEO instead of the company owner would create a positive attitude and energy among the employees
This system of employees deciding their CEO instead of the company owner would create a positive attitude and energy among the employees
Practical Impact
Employees would be more han happy to get a leader that they wanted compared to forced leadership that almost all the organizations follow.
Credits
All credit goes to Vineet Nayar's speech that I came across in Youtube that influenced me to think about Management innovation
March 18, 2011 at 3:42pm
Interested in instituting more democratic principles into business management?
I believe to do this you need to create a tool to ease an organisation into the responsibility associated with the democratic process. You need to be able to practice in small incremental ways.
This tool needs to be scalable. Depending on where you want an organisation to end up, by changing the variables within the tool, its use could move right from private ownership to a fully blown worker co-operative over a period of many years.
Ricardo Semler seems to be on to it http://www.altfeldinc.com/pdfs/Maverick.pdf
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