One Doesn't Have To Be A Marxist

Most Of Us Understand That Innovation Is Enormously Important. It's The Only Insurance Against Irrelevance. It's The Only Guarantee Of Long-term Customer Loyalty. It's The Only Strategy For Out-performing A Dismal Economy.

The Real Damper On Employee Engagement Is The Soggy, Cold Blanket Of Centralized Authority. In Most Companies, Power Cascades Downwards From The Ceo. Not Only Are Employees Disenfranchised From Most Policy Decisions, They Lack Even The Power To Rebel Against Egocentric And Tyrannical Supervisors.

We Owe Our Existence To Innovation. Our Species Exists Thanks To Four Billion Years Of Genetic Innovation.

As Human Beings, We Are The Genetic Elite, The Sentient, Contemplating And Innovating Sum Of Countless Genetic Accidents And Transcription Errors.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.