Chaosophistication – the subtle art of change

Recently I posed the question  “What do you think about an open Salary policy, total transparency in compensation at a company that is less than 40 people, is this a good idea? Or a recipe for disaster?”   I received a Lot of Responses.  I can’t Imagine what would have happened if I had asked : “How do you feel about profanity in blog posts?“

Why don't you ask our opinion?

I never expected to receive so much feed back from the Question I posed on Linked in.  The image above is just poking fun, becuase honestly the main feeling I got was genuine concern.  The responses were passionate, but mostly concerned that I was in a position (which I am not) to make such a policy change, and that if I do it, that I will RUIN the lives of the hypothetical 40 employees.  This was pretty touching, my friends, and strangers were very concerned that I would be weilding abusive and destructive power around in the name of “progressive management”.

Trust me, I would never do that kind of policy change without consensus from the team.  But still I do ulimately think its a good policy.  The idea is simple, if you are a strong enough manager, you will deal with the inequity in pay structure.  The question is whether you deal with it transparently or just try to deal with it internally and privately.

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Ryan working through things

When our baby Soren died a few years back, one of the most cathartic experiences I had was working with our friend and master carpenter to build a tiny casket from some brazillian wood, with pegs and glue only.  Rami helped me make it pretty ornately, but it was no bigger than shoe box.  I was heartned to read our friend Ryan and Sherman’s Memorial blog about Ezra who passed away this year recently where they described the funeral.  Particulary I though about carrying the casket together as a family. And having no hearse. And Ryan building the casket.

How good.  I think it must have helped with the greif.  Cella and Josiah and renee all helped with the pegs in the final part of putting Soren’s casket together and that memory will always help me when I feel sad.

http://ezrasherman.blogspot.com/2009/02/snowy-burial-day-february-26-2009.html

A dear family that we have loved for the 9 years we have known them has lost their son to lukemia this week. He died after an intense week long battle with cranial bleeding. One minute he was fine. The next his loving parents rushed him to the ER, discovered he had lukemia, then discovered he had bleeding in the brain…and one short week later he was gone. He never woke up and never knew he had a disease.

Because the ICU’s now have internet connections. Kandice and Ryan had the ability to take a cathartic and therapuetic approach and create a blog to tell friends and family about his progress during intense chemo. This led to hundreds of postings, a shrine at Ezra’s school, 1000 paper cranes, candles left on door steps and the proper kind of shared greiving that must have been common when we all lived in villages but is denied us usually in the modern age.

Everyone should have such love and it is interesting and strange how sick and hurt I feel about Ezra’s passing, leaving behind his twin brother and older sister but even stranger how comforting it is to see so many people sharing their love for this amazing family on the internet.

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I love it when innovations really make a difference. You know the roomba , the AirBlade and now this.

The video is a bit slow getting started but worth watching.

• Watching a Danish Crusades action film at the theatres with my son. It’s in Danish withbno subtitles buy still cool. At least got beer. #
• Using shazam to identify music. Best app Ever #

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