Companies have died, but still do not know, and make business plans as if nothing was happening. But remains of the dead. Companies have died and no pact with the devil, no mesmerism organization can revive them. Do not be fooled by professionals who speak on the phone so excited and serious while clocked in, look beyond women's suit with the laptop and talking on the phone on the Pendolino, examine filigree consultants with the black suit, the white shirt and pointy shoes. Go beyond the advertising and marketing that informs us that "everything around us." Try to read backlit their press releases. They're all walking dead.
Companies are long dead, with all their machinery of war. With their endless pyramids, with their ropes, with their managers who speak without knowing what they are saying on the skin of thousands of people with a shiver in cold sweat, with their projects without rhyme or reason, with their slides, with their slogans that nobody has ever followed, with their house organ, their false press releases, with their arrogant and incompetent leaders, with their employees that you are always frigates, with their sensitivity to steamroller, with their managers with the fifth grade that their employees plurilaureati stick with their routine that gradually you empty inside, with their arrogance with their cowardice, fear crowds that govern all their choices, with their hypocrisy that defiles us all with their talent fleeing with their mediocre instead remain with their employees who resist with their aspiring managers who aspire not to breathe. With their impunity. With their genetic inability to develop the best of each of us. With their procedures, with their rites tired with their celebrations stale, with their pettiness, their disgusting prudence, with their entangled with their entangled. With their never mind, with their mad race to the bottom, with their nineteenth-century language, with their waste, their myopic and sad overview, with their disgusting ideology, with their "customer orientation" that have never wanted to know, with their "transparency" that are careful to practice with their "speed" and "efficiency" that you care less.
Twenty years maximum this will no longer exist. But do not you hear the creaking, do not feel drafts from which the wind is getting cold called from time to time immaterial labor, network, cognitive economy, dynamic management of knowledge and especially something called the market, so damn far from ghost in the room imagined buttons that govern these companies are called dinosaurs. But you hear the wail of dozens, hundreds of thousands, millions of people who are sick of being treated as mentally handicapped who want to decide who they want to get involved, they want to do, finally, how things are done?
I know what you're thinking, but how would we do without the companies? Who will give us all the goods and services that delight us life every day? How will we survive without a production system? Think a little 'over-all this exists today despite the company and not through them. Innovation and the ability to produce something new does not arise within companies: creep, just in their jerseys. Are actually products of a main product is called self-preservation, every day more difficult.
No, not resist, there is no plausible reason to justify the persistence of a device that produces so much dissatisfaction inside and outside so much inefficiency.
Companies will die: they will go so simply, without fanfare, like a natural thing. Will melt like snow in the sun and we will only vague memories of their pathetic presence. We will remember them as a queue on the motorway: oppressive and hopeless until we were inside, absolutely useless and free once dissolved.
We do not know what to replace, perhaps some form of local cooperation, perhaps a world of professionals linked together, perhaps a return to some form of popular crafts. All I know is that any form will work when we buried these monsters producing misery and frustration will be ruled by passion, the dream, the game, the cooperation, the desire to do something good and the desire to be masters of our know.
What I know is that companies, these companies are a human product, which had a beginning and will have an end. Companies are not the best organization possible, and never before has felt the need for a new utopia able to imagine what will happen.
We do not know when, we do not know how, but it will happen.
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