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Traci Fenton - WorldBlu

• 73% of US workforce is disengaged (butt in seat base minimum of what you need to do; all input, no output)
• 1 /4 fee they work in a dictatorship, 80% felt more freedom would mean more productivity

10 principals of a democratic organization

• focus
• transparency
• dialogue and listening
• fairness and dignity (fairness != sameness); rankism is bad, abuse of title
• accountability
• the individual & the collective
• choice - of: working hours, projects
• integrity
• decentralization
• reflection and evaluation

Open discussion

• Open salaries - this would be spectacular in a car wreck, natural disaster sort of way at work
• no real research on doing X thing democratically and getting X amount of money as a result
• plan workspaces democratically
• coworking: like working at home but with pants
• We live in a “democratic” society, why do we work in such structured and rigid companies?
• Forget about guerrilla change, you need the buy in of the folks at the top… viva la revolucion?