We should answer a simple question: "Why companies are built and managed in the way we know?".
In this presentation I will give my answer from an historic, scientific and economic perspective, and, at the same, I will try to show why other models are possible.
Different organisational models are not only possible, but needed when the current models are causing so much pain in modern companies.
We need to reinvent the way company works as well as we must reinvent the definition of career in the 21st century.
We have so many tools and the higher amount of technology that we can use to shape the future of our companies. Which is the reason why we are not doing anything about it?
Even if the presentation is definitely focused on the Italian market it contains elements and ideas that have a broader ranged of applicability.
And, as always, it's not too serious.
I used this presentation for my talk at the Better Software 2013 conference in Florence.
54. ca·reer
noun
kə-ˈrir
a : speed in a course.
!
b : a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive
achievement in public, professional, or business life.
!
c: a profession for which one trains and which is
undertaken as a permanent calling.
69. Company Vision:
To create a company in which all team members will
be self-managing professionals, initiating
communications and the coordination of their
activities with fellow colleagues, customers,
suppliers, and fellow industry participants, absent
directives from others.
!
!
70.
71. Handbook for new employees
http://www.valvesoftware.com/jobs/index.html
91. #include
<iostream>
!
class
Company
{
public:
CEO();
CFO();
CTO();
CMO();
private:
void
run_business();
//
As
per
our
model
:-‐)
};
!
//
constructor
of
CEO
Company::CEO()
{
}
!
//
destructor
of
CEO
Company::~CEO()
{
delete[]
;
//Something
went
wrong
:-‐)
}
96. 2
Everywhere you look, there are devices for free
that have everything you need to make anything
do anything.
!
...the world is full of capacious, capable,
disposable junk and it cries out to be used again.
!
Cory Doctorow - Makers - 2009
Is this a moral imperative?