The corporation as we know it
In our martini and cigar conversation last night, we were talking about the fact that the “corporation” is a 125 year old experiment that is long due for the reinventions we’re seeing emerge these days. At least some of us are moving away from multi-class power divisions, top down agenda constricted meetings, and towards self-directed teams, among other things.
Talking about how the corporation can be both an amazing source of dysfunction and sustainability, G served up a brilliant insight: The corporation is an entity for people to externalize qualities they wouldn’t take on personally.
May 21st, 2006 16:41
Can’t really take credit for that. It’s the gist of what Noam Chomsky said in the movie The Corporation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
May 21st, 2006 18:42
Feuerbach makes the same comment on religion, that people project onto the transcendent divine, qualities that people, for some reason, won’t take on personally.
May 22nd, 2006 20:09
Qualities such as… greed?
Not down on capitalism or business, but very much down on the fact that large corporations, chiefly due to their financing of political campaigns, now run America Inc. and write the rules that “regulate” them.