Comments on: Opening the Scope of Employee Contribution

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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:47:06 +0000

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By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:53:12 +0000

I wish the higher-ups at LNC would think about this. It seems they’re aiming for the exact opposite.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:58:28 +0000

That is one of the best management styles I’ve ever seen.

A question I have however, is…

How do you determine an employee’s paycheck if the scope of that employee’s work is constantly changing?

For instance, were you paid more when you helped with order processing (assuming that such task would have a greater value then your regular one)?

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:36:40 +0000

I knew you were a commy! But seriously, I was having a conversation about this general topic with a friend of mine from MDA. I should introduce you. You two should hit it off famously.
Corporate culture in general is too apt to create pathological relationships between management and talent (between everyone, really). I believe this is … Read Moreespecially so in IP-related companies, where your talent may be idiot savant types (no offense, man ) who are especially sensitive to their innovations being misunderstood/misused, wasted, or dismissed. And I believe every new generation of intellectuals just become more anti-corporate. They start out that way, and corps will have their work cut out for them to overcome that antipathy, without reinforcing it.
Think about it: the savants are highly capable, and highly networked (that is what the “ant” part means). Inviting a pheremone-laden member of the top-five hive into your corp, and then alienating him/her is just a very very bad idea.

So, anyway, my point is that corporate structure/culture needs a radical overhaul, IMO. If for no other reason than for self-interest.
Either that or they should hire, stupider more compliant, mostly harmless people like me