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The problem with capitalism
I think capitalism right now is pretty screwed. Yet I’m still a capitalist. Huh? Speaking earlier this year, Nick Clegg, the UK’s Deputy PM said that: “We don’t believe our problem is too much...
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Why do we accept giving up all of our rights at work?
I’m reading Beyond the Corporation by David Erdal at the moment and so have been thinking a lot about employee ownership. It’s making me wonder why we accept so little in the way of rights at work than...
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Building a better economy with more employee ownership
Iain Hasdell, Chief Executive of the Employee Ownership Association has written an excellent call to action for government to facilitate building a better economy with more employee ownership. In the...
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Innovating business ownership models
Something I like doing for fun is sketching pie charts of ownership models for businesses. Yes, I am a business geek! In the standard model today, the ownership of a business is something separate from...
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Video: We the owners
Check out this trailer for up-coming documentary We The Owners, about employee ownership. Really gives a sense of what employee ownership means on an emotional level. It’s hard to fail to see why this...
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The state we’re in and the call for a new economy
I’m at the Imagine 2012 conference on cooperative economics in Quebec City. Here are some thoughts after the first full day. It’s a pretty frightening picture, folks. But there is hope. The industrial...
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Cooperatives need bottom-up thinking
I’m at the early stages of working on an idea to see many more cooperative businesses in Brighton. I’m at the International Summit of Coops in Quebec to learn more and make some new connections in this...
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Three free Brightoneers events and other updates from me
I’ve been very quiet on this blog lately, but there’s been loads going on so here’s an update from me. The Brightoneers The community of people working together to build a pioneering new economy in...
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