Egalitarian Business Models
Here is a clip from Stowe Boyd's post on the Hunter/Gatherer Future:
Of course, the alternative is right in front of us. We can instead
aspire to hold onto a world based on exclusion, divisiveness, and
caste, where unilateral power politics dominate the world stage, and
the parochial interests of the powerful few control the destinies of
all.
And in business, we will watch as those who best learn how to
collaborate will come to dominate the land-rush into the 21st century
economy, and those who tried to control their markets — instead of
building deep collaboration into their business models, as John Seely
Brown styles it — will fail. It may well be that this will be the
fulcrum upon which human culture turns, pried away from industrial era
models of command-and-control, in business, in politics, and in society
as a whole.
/Message: Moving to the Edge: The Hunter/Gatherer Future
I really believe in this vision of collaborative work based on egalitarian principles.
believe that the best setting for collaboration — whether in the workplace, or in society as a whole — is one in which these principles of inclusion and egalitarianism are afforded the greatest importance. This is the primary motivation for my evangelism for Web culture, since it lacks any hierarchies except those based on respect, influence, and the inexorable power laws of reputation and emergent individual authority.
/Message: Moving to the Edge: The Hunter/Gatherer Future
