Benjamin B. Compton wrote:
> Well I think I've said enough about my experience at Novell.
I was interested to read your posts on Novell- and unfortunately not
surprised. I went through a similar situation in a large high tech company
myself and know from visitors to my site that they have to. See for
example http://www.unorg.com/geewcs.htm which has a case study of a guy
called Henry Archuleta in Denver was forced out from a rail company and
successfully reinvented himself in the computer training industry. Yours
is not an isolated example by any means- it is pretty typical. The sad but
inescapable fact is that most organizations treat their employees like
children. Other people's companies represent the most oppresive and
constraining environments there are in the post-communist world. They are
the biggest threat to human civil liberties that exists.
In the unorganized world, any brander (person who thinks of themselves as
a differentiated brand) who remains in a hierarchy is by definition not
realizing their full potential. This is voluntary dependence. Any kind of
dependence is expensive in terms of time, effort and energy wasted on
busyness such as negotiating rather than the business of pursuing dream
realization. Branders in hierarchies are engaging in transaction costs
such as compromise and negotiation when they have the means to and could
be engaging in transactions. Some, maybe a lot, of their time is busyness
and not business. They used to have greater access to opportunities within
organizations, but this is not a constraint in the unorganized world.
Branders can only live their dream fully by being voluntarily independent
or interdependent.
Recognize the opportunity to turn yourself from ranker (interchangeable
units of economic production in jobs dumbed down to the lowest pssible
learning factor by detailed job procedures) into brander via the creation
of lifestreams (alternative ways of making a living). If things are quiet
and you feel down, just remember how you felt at Novell, and smile. Best
wishes.
Regards sincerely Simon Buckingham http://www.unorg.com
unorganization: business not busyness!
--Simon Buckingham <go57@dial.pipex.com>
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