Work love

Picture this: Sitting down at a job you love, pouring yourself into your work with abandon, doing what you'd do for free. But getting paid well. Really well. More than you ever have. While working alongside friends. No, not work 'friends.' I mean the people you love and respect. Picture partnering with them, trusting them. Picture finding the passions you share, the things that make you each tick. Then you find a few more people like this, and you become friends with them, too – real friends – as you delve into doing what you always wanted. Not your dream job, your fantasy experience. Those things you dismissed for any reason. Things you'd love to do, skills or no skills. Imagine yourself doing it.

Ok, now look at reality. Look at your skills, how much they've grown. Forget what you use them for, just recognize that you can grow skills. Look at how great you've done working for other people.

Now come back to that passion. If I paid you for 10 years to pursue that passion with abandon, and that was your only assignment, picture what you'd be like in 10 years. What skills you'd have then. Imagine what experiences you would have had. Imagine how close you'd be with those friends who have been with you on the journey. Life partners.

Co-capitalist steps to love

▼- Hierarchy problems  

❉ - Team partnership solutions:

1.      Enterprise

    ▼ Hierarchy for margins → yuck

   ❉  Co-capitalism for value → yum

2.      Agency

    ▼ Authority → middling performance

    ❉  Empowerment → 6X bump in productivity

3.      Wayfinding

    ▼ Isolated choices → floundering

    ❉  Group decisions → wisdom

4.      Mission

    ▼ Margin lust → graft

    ❉  Value focus → quality

5.      Self-interest

    ▼ Power imbalance → in-fighting

    ❉  Value alignment → win-win

6.      Rewards

    ▼ Pay for control → exploitation

    ❉  Pay for value → more value

7.      Connection

    ▼ Singular links → brittle structure

    ❉   Interconnection → robust adaptability

8.      Communication

    ▼ Silos, echos, pretense → ignorance

    ❉   Transparency → enlightenment

9.      Culture

    ▼ Playacting, favoritism → toxicity

    ❉   Alignment → love

This should be your reality. And this can be your reality.

All you have to do is take the first step.

Which is reading this book

An excerpt from How to Fire Your Boss and Redeem the Economy