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I’ve taken a break from my blog writing for awhile. To be quiet honest I’ve been in a bit of a funk. I decided today that I believe I’ve devised a way of reviving my writing once again while also providing a service to my readers.
The basic theme of my blog will remain the same. It’s still my intention to write a great deal about the Internet itself, web based applications, how people use computers and the Internet and Internet Marketing. I have however come to the realization that a new passion has developed in me that I want to share. Finding companies for folks to work for that don’t suck.
At times I get pretty fed up with Corporate America. I get tired of the lack of true focus on individual’s quality of life. I get disenchanted with the bureaucracy and the difficulty companies have with making decisions and allowing the creativity and ingenuity of their employees to flourish.
So in the days and weeks to come you’ll see more articles out of me along these lines. I’ll talk about companies I think suck and why I think the suck. I’ll talk about companies I think don’t suck and why. I’ll even talk about models for running a company that I think suck or don’t suck and what we as employees can do about it.
I also believe I have an entrepreneurial streak in me that is just dying to get out. Some of my writing may lean in this direction. In other words, I may suggest that if you can’t find a company that doesn’t suck to work for your only choice may be to start your own.
Corporations around the globe are the organizations that truly run our lives, not the governments. I read somewhere that a fair number of the corporations in the United States have economies of their own that meet or exceed the economies of many major nations. If we’re to really cause a change in this world, make it a better place, I believe the best place to start is with cleaning up the organizations that truly have the power.
Wish me luck!
April 19, 2008 at 10:28
That sounds pretty cool, I was just thinking the other day about how the US really isn’t a democratic republic, but more of fascist aristocracy. But don’t get me wrong, I love America, and all of the freedom we have and the true ability we have to adjust our social rank. But as far as the government is concerned, it really is controlled by three entities, Large Corporations, Political Families, and the Media.
So anyways, I look forward to your posts.
April 20, 2008 at 07:19
It’s interesting that you mention democracy and aristocracy in your comment Nicholas. I have been doing a great deal of reading on a form of organizational governance called Holacracy in recent months. A pretty cool software company I was introduced to uses (and coined the term for) this practice of running a company. I’m going to a training workshop on the practice next month. More to follow on that.
April 22, 2008 at 11:16
An interesting research idea. I hope you find some good ones out there. I’m not interested in being an employee, but it is the best option for most.
May 11, 2008 at 06:58
Frank, I really believe that anytime you use the nasty curseword, “Job”, you will end up doing something that will suck. The only company that won’t suck is the company that you are the owner.
May 12, 2008 at 11:00
Everyone has a boss, and even as a sole business entrepeneur self-employed consultant, I had a ton of bosses, and often many within a single client company.
I think you have hit a nerve here, trying to find “sings that do not suck”. There is a famous story that the inventor of JBOSS at Java One prepared two slides for a 1 hour talk = one was the name of his company and the second one was “Doesn’t Suck” and for one hour compared all the problems of WebSphere (c) and Oracle (c) and other competitors in the Java arena that were proprietary and well known, and his bottom line for choosing a J2E java app container was his JBOSS “Doesn’t Suck”.
Yes, you may have the name a great book here, “Things that Don’t Suck and Why”.
This goes along with the best TV remote control ever (I’ll have to find the picture) that has only 7 buttons: volume control, channel control, on/off, mute and sleep.