Rough Acres Do corporations really need CEOs and Boards of Directors? An awful lot of mid-level managers would tell you, no, and without hesitation. CEOs and Boards often add a layer of unnecessary complexity (and the always-fun to-watch ego and ignorance and greed!)... and a HUGE layer of financial burden. The best mid-level manager in the company often has better ideas than those at the top, at 1/331 the cost (Forbes, April 2014). And if you added in Boards of Directors? fuggedaboudit. That mid-level manager is Dirt Cheap. There is much value to having professional, experienced people at the top, guiding a company... but far too often, top positions are filled by the movers and shakers, people with connections - to money. Not to the work, not to the vocations needed to do the work of the company (I can think of at least one major institution right here in NYC slowly being dismantled as the pre-eminent institution it is because a greedy board and a clueless management team doesnt get the mission. The STAFF do, of course. But... beyond try to raise consciousness of the situation by writing letters and blogs and telling everyone they know... what can they do? Theyre only professional staff). Movers and shakers, in my experience in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds, are usually movers and shakers only because OTHER movers and shakers say so. (Perfect consequence of this thinking: soaring compensation standards at the tippy-top, going in both directions at once so everyones pockets get lined.) This precept is a self-perpetuating cycle, like the one which gives the ignorant permission to remain ignorant by stuffing them with bread and circuses along with the misinformation which allows rogues to make millions: spouting hate, spewing prejudice, fomenting hatred toward the one thing that can still save us from the maelstrom: GOVERNMENT. Of, by, and for the People. America needs a paradigm shift. Sometimes it feels as if were caught in an old Wild Wild Western with cattle and railroad and land barons - fighting the same battle we thought Roy Rogers and Ben Cartwright and Cheyenne ALREADY fought, the stand against greed and self-interest. Or were all caught in the audience of the flickering black-and-white films of Perpetual War which has fed the maw of the rich in WWI, WWII, and every .x version thereafter. Its time for intermission and a popcorn break. Change is hard; but change is inevitable, if a species is to evolve and survive. We may not have the power right this second to change the paradigm completely - corporations are far too entrenched in the power structure which now exists for us to do what we need to about them - but we DO have the power to take back the reins of the runaway coach, and vote for people we know BELIEVE in the power of people to change the world for good, without taking advantage of that position to enrich themselves. From Maine to California... seek out the most progressive choices on your ballot... and lets make a fresh start. Lets all face the reality of a 21st Century Earth in crisis, and acknowledge it is the responsibility of EVERYONE to save. Its time to TURN OFF the incessant misinformation from your television, TUNE OUT the cloying corporate messages to trust the movers and shakers who are obstructing our progress... and TURNOUT TO VOTE. Vote for your future. Vote for your neighbors childrens future. Vote for the futures of all the children on Earth, from Syria to Africa. Give us all a future grounded in possibility, not defeat; on handling crises together, not second-guessing from the back seat or tantrum-kicking the seatback of the driver like a cranky 2-year-old. Vote for the future. R WriteIn Rita McKee Nov. 4, 2014 in the NY13 Congressional Election UnlikeUnlike · You, Edna Becker and 2 others like this. Diane Ollie WOW, you are right. What do they even do?
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:46:49 +0000
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