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by zer00eyz 18 days ago
> Hiring and firing is hard. Creating a strong and healthy culture is hard. Defining success, and steering the ship to it is hard.

A big subset of these issues are American business culture.

> Public companies basically cannot evolve their form, because boards and shareholders will rarely agree to leave money on the table for an opaque long view that prioritizes culture over profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co. makes a lot of this possible.

Other corporate structures are possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation