What about having a company where everyone works for incentives? This thought cropped up in my mind when we started working closely as a team to earn more money.
We have all seen many successful open source platforms – what about starting an open source office? What about taking the office as a platform – where it is not necessary to have a building called office? Ok, lets talk about the web based industries or companies where the workers are primarily knowledge workers.
Ok, let’s dream about such a company: (I think Dreams are Important.) What happens in such a company?
1. You do not need to go to office everyday to do your regular jobs like writing content or coding or product updating. We can do it from wherever you want and whenever you want. Hey – there will always be some deadlines – assigned to you and more importantly assigned by you.
2. A coffee shop is good enough to work like an office where you meet for brainstorming sessions. You can also think about going to Alaska to spend a vacation with the team members and to discuss new ideas. And thus you will never have to pay for office development and maintenance. And you may actually save a lot of time and money by not travelling to office everyday. (You will have more time to spend with your family too :))
3. There will be no monthly salary – you earn incentives – as much as you want depending on what you are doing. Or it may be something like 25% straight.
4. The Highest rank would be that of a Manager or Team Leader who would monitor the project – this position may change in different projects or by time.
5. You will never have to read this article by Guy Kawasaki. You will always by a businessman or entrepreneur but you will never be the CEO. You can sign out but no one can sign you off.
Would you like to add something to this list? Write a comment and I will put it here.
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Add your commentWe already sort of do this. We work anywhere our laptops will work. We work whenever we want. We own our own small Internet business and are the only two employees, so we basically are working for percentages. We use 80% open source (and free) software. We partner with people we have never met or talked to, solely through email. All of our products are digital and cost next to nothing to produce. It’s really pretty amazing, because none of that was possible 10 years ago!
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Well its a nice idea to setup a office like that, but you will require a group of programming professionals to work with you… if you are working in software or web development company..its becomes easy to implement this idea…
well nice writup… :)
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It is a nice theory but most would freak out as soon as they got to number 3. No salary. I strongly believe that people work harder when they know their pay is directly tied to what they produce.
Personally I don’t have a salary. I work for myself and get paid based on results and results alone.
It is like the old joke of how salary negotiations go:
Boss: We will pay you just enough not to quit.
Employee: Great and I will work just hard enough to not get fired.
It is a great idea but getting people to go along with it would be the hard part.
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its a good idea but in this work a team of SEO professional would be required and aware the companies about you
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Nice view of this setup but for this the group of professional should be requierd
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