The dark side of the moon (Updated)

Another compliment for the best manager in the world

Real progressives criticize corporations and its economic culture, and there's a reason for that; corporations are the organization of a structure with command of authority in different levels, so the whole structure function as a body. That’s why the name of the phenomena, with corps meaning body, and the branches of the organization as the parts of that body; but adding the big contradiction of the human character, because bodies are not functioning in base a democratic model, but just to a power and authority. From the very beginning them, as the Democracy in politics, in economics it’s an abstraction and not a natural form of life; and as in politics, it could still be the best form, but need an adjustment of the whole structure that is far from the actuality.

The natural way of things is something like oligarchy, which is not just a political but an economic model; that determines the political management because this economical root, but not the other way around. That’s why religion, the very first political formation on the culture, was a corporation from that very beginning; and them, as the second political formation, the secular government went based on the oligarchy, as aristocracy. That doesn’t mean Democracy is not a real value, but still abstract and difficult to build in the immediate reality; and it should explain the multiple contradictions of the political struggle, with that typical contradiction between liberals and conservatives.

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Let’s be clear about this, because the artificial and abstract nature of Democracy doesn’t make it unreal; it just means its reality is artificial (technological) and has a technical value, as a good for the human nature. But still, it need an overwhelming adjustment of the culture as a whole structure, ‘till the final conciliation. By the way, the body could end ripped apart by the violence of these contradictions, as could have happen to ancient cultures; name it Incas for example, as the lack of balance in between the culture and its environment, that relates also to the relationships of the body with its own resources. That’s why a bad manager or functionary —making to function a part of the body— could lead the structure to its own collapse; but it doesn’t make the bureaucracy a bad thing by itself, it rather could mean that bureaucracy is just another part; and as another part, it too need to be rationalized and make accountable by the rest of the body.

Here is where it could look like a democracy, in the access of the other parts to the main management to make its own management accountable; and therefore it’s more like the smartness of the main management, to maintain that access as its own resources. That’s why in corporations the Human resources departments work for the corporation and not for the workers, but still should do it advocating with the workers; because this is the way to release the resources from the stress of bad management, making relationships more loosed and productive. As a principle, it’s good to understand that a good manager always has a good relationship with its workers; because a good manager knows the capacity of its workers and where to stop before disrupt the function whit the fracture of its resources.

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That’s why authority is a very complicated resource, that should come as respect and nor fear from the worker; and at the moment the manager has to intimidate its subordinate, them it’s stressing the resources of the whole structure and compromising it. And as the dark side of the moon, everybody should know it exist and how to walk on it, instead to shutting down that beautiful and helpful satellite; with tools that help to recognize that bad manager that produce the bad management, so the structure can reorganize itself. Of course, bad managers are individuals as good managers, but also and like the others they share some common characteristics; in this case, that one and among others of relying only in its own authority and smartness, discarding others expertise and criteria, which also implies some disrespect to seniority.

This means that respect of seniority has nothing to do with fairness nor justice, but common sense; because it’s in the best interest of any company to profit on the experience and know how of the people who ultimately it forms in its own culture. So from this point of view, disrespecting seniority affect the company and its ability to make profits deviating its resources; which could be made based on the criteria of the manager, who happen to have that power for a reason, but conducting the process to fail at some point. That’s why the standards are to guarantee every part is functioning with efficiently and not one is disrupting the other’s function; and that means too that a manager who act in other way is acting against the best interest of the whole structure, which is serious failure.

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That’s because that manager doesn’t work for its organization but for itself, which is why compromises the stability of the structure; and there is where Human resources departments comes in handy for the good of the whole structure, adjusting the disruption of the manager. But about all, that explain why at the same time that society moves toward socialization, it does it through the corporate organization of the economy; which is a very dangerous pass —as any pass on development—, like going through that dark side of the moon, but is also inevitable, like its own adjustment. It’s here where we can learn from traditions, like that one of the Cabala, which —by the way— is platonic and not Hebrew; as it represents the very beginning of any reality, when God copes all possibilities with its own greatness and has to contract itself (Titsum) to make space for its own realization.