The Tom Peters Seminar by iconoclastic business guru Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence;Thriving On Chaos;etc lays out the business model for the future. Dailykos has exemplified it perfectly and we all have experience with it here. Peters is saying the new model is revolution not change, not incremental adjustments, but permanent and continuing revolution! The world is in a whole new ballgame and corporations will have to enter the revolution or they will perish in the world market. Command and control can no longer work. Remember how Apple used to lead the pack and how exhilirating it was to watch them? At Yearly Kos Kos stated that this was to be the last yearly kos and that it was too big for just one site. Netroots Nation was born and Kos said he was now obsolete. This is what Peters means!And Kos did it with trust not command and control. Kos was the gateopener not the gatekeeper.
And let us never forget the example of Howard Dean And the importance of reaching for the moon and inviting failure which is a part of this entirely new paradigm.
Now make the great leap foward:
The very latest example is the young teen George Hotz who spent his summer before college hacking the iphone to detach it from AT&T and hitch it up to T-Mobile, a legal endeavor. He is auctioning the hacked iphone on ebay and it is currently going for $3000. Not a big summer haul but certainly respectable, not to mention the experience.
Now here's the important part that fits in with Peters. Hotz did it with the help of two Russians online and two US people online whose ID's are the only way he knows them.
The new business model is a group of experts coming together for a project, completing it and dissolving. Maybe they will work together in the future, maybe not. But folks, corporations are going to have to revolutionize the way they do business and follow in Hotz's footsteps or they are going to perish.
The essential ingredient is trust not command and control. Isn't this great? Do you see how this is going to change the psychology of all business people, employers and employees alike? How the authoritarian personality cannot survive in this environment. How command and control will wither and die.
Which is why Obama is the ONE as he is about the future, he is the visionary, He is about opportunity! And not hard to see why considering his background. He is bringing it to us. Hillary's experience is about change, incremental adjustments and playing it safe. Can't cut loose from command and control corporate money, can she? She can't take The Great Leap Foward. As Peters quotes, You cannot leap a chasm in two jumps now can you? Obama is flying high. He represents the American dream. He does not carry the slavery and civil rights warhorse baggage. He is a new phenomenon on the stage of American politics and he stands for the future, for opportunity, not the protectionist past. He is the political model as Hotz is the new entrepreneurial scientific model. Hotz plans to major in neuroscience, "hacking the brain" as he calls it.
John Edwards is so very admirable. But his business stance is inherently protectionist. Bring American jobs back, strengthen the unions, etc. And it just isn't going to work in the new world order. We have been cut loose and are now in competition for our lives with China, Malaysia, South America, India to name just a few. We cannot return to unwieldy bureaucracies, even good union ones,because permanent revolution is the new model. For business, education, art (where it has always been the model) and politics. Chavez is trying something very new in South America. We may not quite like it but it is revolutionary. Castro now seems so very yesterday.
And so does Hillary.