Leadership, teamwork, democratic workplace
America’s 250th birthday is a good time to reflect about democracy in the work place. The USAs semiquincentennial coincides with Riga’s 825th birthday. I am in Riga this summer. While centuries old, Riga has had democratic rule for only 50 years. Democratically speaking, Latvia is a toddler compared to America’s grand-old experiment of self-rule. A…
“WHENE’ER companions don’t agree,They work without accord; And naught but trouble doth result, Although they all work hard. One day a swan, a pike, a crab, Resolved a load to haul; All three were harnessed to the cart, And pulled together all. But though they pulled with all their might, The cart-load on the bank…
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried…
A few years back, I made up a term for a kind of management system or style: cage free. It was a re-purposing of a term found on an egg carton. As you know nowadays there’s more than one way, including “gluten-free”, to market eggs. (There’s no gluten** in eggs.) And, claiming eggs are organic suggests something…