AN OPEN LETTER TO CORPOCRACY!

AN OPEN LETTER TO CORPOCRAY!

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.

© February 11, 2011

Thomas L. Friedman wrote a book to explain the changing nature of society across the globe, THE WORLD IS FLAT (2005).  The essence of what Friedman was saying was that with the rise of China and non-Western countries economically, politically, militarily, and socially, was introducing an increasingly level playing field that was more consistent with that enjoyed in the West. 

This momentous change has been influenced if not led by the Internet and the increasingly sophisticated and available technology in the form of information and communication electronically through many new inventions and interventions, which continue unabated at an alarming pace.

We have seen this most recently in the rise of the people of Egypt as the children of Egypt have risen against the Pharaoh of Egypt in the totalitarian rule of Hosni Mubarak.  Change is from the bottom up, no longer from the top down.   Corpocracy, please make note of this. 

In a series of books, I have attempted to map out a similar development in the corporate world but have encountered the soft bigotry of low expectations of the majority popluation of professional workers in Western corporate society. 

Professionals, seemingly locked into the culture of complacency and the language of corpocracy, a status which I have also outlined in a series of books, have allowed Chief Executive Officers and their staffs to operate in collusion with their Board of Directors to rubber stamp decisions that maintained top down corporate authority and infallible rule.

Under the guise of cosmetic change that changes nothing at all, corpocracy has instituted empowerment practices, which purport to be empowering when they are not, worker friendly compensation programs which buys loyalty and quiets reaction, claimed to be open to change when it reinforces the idea of profits before people, and seen itself as egalitarian when it pays itself 500 to 1,000 times the wage of the typical hourly worker, and bought loyalty of the professional and management staff by making them appear affluent enough to identify with top management if they cannot replicate their advantages.

Corpocracy, your days are numbered.  Professionals have the power because knowledge is power and they control knowledge, which is the source of power in the electronic age. 

Workers will no longer allow corpocracy to summarily reengineer, reorganize, flippantly create and implement redundancy exercises, close plants and leave workers in their fifties without access to the careers and economic stability they spent their youth in school in preparation for.  

Corpocracy, you are no longer in charge, and what is happening in Tunisia and Egypt in a political sense is to happen in a corporate sense very soon.

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