Work sucks.
But it doesn’t have to.
The corporate workplace has always been out of whack with who we really are. But amid everything changing in the world, we’re waking up to demand more.
You've felt it: all those times you put in effort to move the needle without a fair share of the upside — financially or creatively. This brings burnout. Restlessness. A team that isn't quite producing value despite all the effort the members put in. A boss that shifts gears and direction on a whim or only listens to his favorite employees.
These aren’t separate problems. They’re all symptoms of the same design: a system that separates what you contribute from what you earn. The problem is the top-down org chart and its design for control which upends the value proposition within a company. It’s never pay you more for more work; it’s pay you less for more work.
There’s a better way.
How to Fire Your Boss builds on decades of real-world experience and from organizations that have been testing alternatives for years — fractional work, Scrum, collaborative ownership models — each one cracking a piece of the problem. This book connects the pieces.
What emerges is a roadmap for a new way of working: coherent, self-perpetuating, and already proven by a narrow path of pioneers who have built billion-dollar companies with these ideas.
At the center of it is one shift: learning how to profit from your personal interest and value. An economic realignment — bringing free-market economics into the company, all the way to your bottom line. Connecting what is good for you and the value you create while aligning that with others to maximize your ability to contribute and earn, rather than losing that into traditional control layers that absorb and dampen value by design.
From that shift, a different structure becomes possible. More autonomy while improving coordination. Fluid teams that move together in response to a value market. This works for managers, owners and workers. It’s profit AND people. Even private equity is finding that performance improves when we replace control with market-savvy alignment — when people are positioned to operate more like owners than subordinates.
This alignment starts within you — lining up your income, your energy and your sense of direction. Empowered with that engine and joining forces with like-minded partners we can build a practical foundation for the future of work, value, and our place in the world. Start today.
Every link in the chain of command is a liability and a bottleneck.
Your boss has everything to do with why you hate your job.
Today’s corporations have become profit machines, running off your creativity and energy – at the expense of your well-being. No, it’s not personal – more than a symbol, your boss holds the reins of two broken ideologies that create most of your angst within the workplace:
Hierarchy: Though commonplace, the hierarchical system of top-down control breeds inefficiency, stifles creativity and hampers the motivative forces of a free-market economy within and beyond company walls. Every link in the chain of command is a liability and a bottleneck.
The share-price ponzi scheme: Business hierarchy today is focused on a graft game of momentary margin gains rather than producing commerce for value, resulting in bad workplaces and shoddy products.
But there are proven alternatives that are better for business and better for you. Discover practical strategies to seize the profit from your own value, aligning your work with a group mission that matters. This is more than a book; it’s a call to rethink how – and why – we work.
This is the moment to redefine what work means – for yourself and for the commerce of the future.
The rise of co-capitalism: Humanity is pulling together the pieces to create a more democratic, more free-market economy. Ever increasing adoption of scrum practices, fractional work and team organization are drawing us to a new paradigm. Let's replace the hierarchy model and its margin focus with teams of value-aligned, self-managed and empowered co-entrepreneurs. What we're talking about here offers a bridge, a third way in the evolution of capitalism into a more robust, individually-aware, value-first business paradigm, galvanized in every aspect by the synergy of profit and people.
Co-capitalism:
Profit-driven enterprise, owned and led by self-managed teams focused on maximizing the value proposition for themselves and customers.
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