Clay Shirky
The institutional response is “I can get 75% of the value for 10% of the hires! Great – that’s what I’ll do”.
The co-operative infrastructure model says… “Why do you want to give up a quarter of the value?. If your system is designed so you have to give up a quarter of the value reengineer the system – don’t take on the costs that prevent you from getting to the contributions of these people, build the system so that anybody can contribute at any amount.”
So the co-ordination response asks not “How are these people as employees?”, rather… “What is their contribution like?”
And the tension here is between Institution-As-Enabler and Institution-As-Obstacle…
Institutions hate being told that they are obstacles…
July 20, 2008 at 2:20 am |
Very Prophetic. Those who study Zen love the creative aspects of non-structured realities and what is possible.
Letting go of the attachment to the certainty and predictability that institutions provide will be daunting.
I have found the inherant power structure to weigh its own survival and position heavier than what is possible.
December 11, 2009 at 2:48 pm |
I’m always searching for new blogposts in the net about this issue. Thanx.