“According to corporate law, a company’s financiers are its owners, and employees are treated as property and recorded as costs.” -Charles Handy in Harvard Business Review
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4 Comments
makes sense. numbers ’til the end.
So, when you work for a corporation you become the equivalent to livestock? Hmmm.
Everyone should watch the documentary “The Corporation” Erik mentioned.
The answer is to become the CEO or major stockholder yourself.
Alfred Hitchcock famously regarded actors as “flesh props.” He and Charles might have gotten along. Joe Pytka, however, lamented in the early ’90s that the bean-counters would destroy advertising as we knew it. Advertising is a business, for sure. But it is also a craft. The foundations of success are insight and talent – singularly human skills – that cannot be reduced to property or costs except by those who value money above human dignity.