Muffed Answer Leads to Rethink

Tom Peters writes that a Muffed Answer Leads to Rethink.

So the idea, then, in an oversimplified nutshell, is to avoid organizational and professional extinction—and in fact pursue growth—by vaulting up the value added chain. In my shorthand: Become a remarkable "brand you" performing 100% value-added "wow projects" in an organizational unit transformed into an innovative "professional service firm"—e.g., devoted to applying intellectual capital to the organization's products and services. (The overall "home" organization, per my model, seeks differentiation by becoming a de facto "collection of integrated professional service firms.")

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Peters seems to saying that workers are being forced to develop themselves as active determiners of their own destiny by the forces of Capitalism. Workers have to become more than passive followers of the firm's management, if they are to survive in the emerging business environment.

Firms that cede power to the workers will have a greater rate of survival than those where the managers reatin control.

Capitalism is forcing socialist development upon the workers by having differential rates of survival. In other words, firms with greater Socialist consciousness will survive better in Capitalist business because greater profits are generated through greater worker productivity and lower cost of managerial supervision.

We may be seeing the synthesis being generated through the dialectical materialism of worker development and desire for profit growth.