Work sucks.
Let’s fix it.
Yes, the problem is your boss. Even if they're a great person, even a great boss.
The problem is the idea of bosses in general. It’s the chain of command. The top-down org chart. Hierarchy.
We’ve felt the pain forever. Giving more and getting less. Doing it their way when we know better. Sucking it up one more time, again and again and again. Knowing there has to be a better way, but never having the time to find it.
We’ve lived with all this because we had to. Until now.
Now is the time for change. Now is the time to make work what it should be.
The solutions are practical yet profound. You can start today. And you don’t have to fire your boss. Yet.
A select few billion-dollar companies have proven that you are right. I am right. There is a better way. A better way for your own bottom line and well-being, a better way for us to collaborate and a better way for society to experience commerce. This is for the whole world.
This is how we do this.
And it starts with you. Today
Every link in the chain of command is a liability and a bottleneck.
Burnout. Restlessness.
A team that isn’t quite producing value despite all the effort its members put in. A boss that shifts gears and direction on a whim. It’s never pay you more for more work; it’s pay you less for more work.
It feels like a dozen different problems.
It’s not.
These aren’t separate problems.
They’re the same gap, experienced from different angles.
The system isn’t built for value. It’s built for control.
The org chart doesn’t reward or facilitate contribution – it absorbs it.
It doesn’t ask how much value you create.
It pays you the lowest amount you’ll accept – and keeps the rest.
How to Fire Your Boss builds on decades of real-world experience – pulling from organizations that have been proving 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 more robust way of working: coherent and self-perpetuating.
At the center of it is one shift: learning how to profit from your personal interest and value.
An economic realignment – bringing free-market dynamics into the company, to your bottom line. Connecting what is good for you and the value you create, and aligning that with others to maximize your ability to contribute and earn – instead of losing that into traditional control layers that stifle value.
When we make this shift we enable a different structure.
More autonomy, while improving coordination.
Fluid teams that respond dynamically to market value.
This works for managers, owners, and workers by shifting the coordination and value proposition to empower individuals.
It’s profit and people.
Even private equity is beginning to see it: Performance improves when we replace control with alignment – when people operate more like owners than subordinates.
With everything changing in the workplace, why not change it for the better? For you. For the world.
This alignment starts within you – lining up your income, your energy, and your sense of direction.
From there, joining forces with like-minded partners, we can step into the future of work, value, and our place in the world.
Start today.
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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