Work sucks.
But it doesn’t have to.
How to fire your boss is a wake-up call to save what's left of your passion and seize the fading opportunity to profit from your personal value. Drawing on decades of experience in dozens of jobs, Randy Leonard demonstrates how mainstream workplaces can be redeemed by integrating proven cooperative models—an idea that has never been more relevant, given lackluster workplace zeitgeist and tectonic shifts brought by AI. Leonard lays out detailed and practical approaches to fix the top-down paradigm by focusing on group-based leadership and value creation—a win for workers, investors and customers alike.
It starts with you: your well-being and your bottom line. Now is the time to start enjoying work, building wealth and living more fully.
Every link in the chain of command is a liability and a bottleneck.
Your boss has everything to do with why you hate your job.
Today’s corporations have become profit machines, running off your creativity and energy – at the expense of your well-being. No, it’s not personal – more than a symbol, your boss holds the reins of two broken ideologies that create most of your angst within the workplace:
Hierarchy: Though commonplace, the hierarchical system of top-down control breeds inefficiency, stifles creativity and hampers the motivative forces of a free-market economy within and beyond company walls. Every link in the chain of command is a liability and a bottleneck.
The share-price ponzi scheme: Business hierarchy today is focused on a graft game of momentary margin gains rather than producing commerce for value, resulting in bad workplaces and shoddy products.
But there are proven alternatives that are better for business and better for you. Discover practical strategies to seize the profit from your own value, aligning your work with a group mission that matters. This is more than a book; it’s a call to rethink how – and why – we work.
This is the moment to redefine what work means – for yourself and for the commerce of the future.
The rise of co-capitalism: Humanity is pulling together the pieces to create a more democratic, more free-market economy. Ever increasing adoption of scrum practices, fractional work and team organization are drawing us to a new paradigm. Let's replace the hierarchy model and its margin focus with teams of value-aligned, self-managed and empowered co-entrepreneurs. What we're talking about here offers a bridge, a third way in the evolution of capitalism into a more robust, individually-aware, value-first business paradigm, galvanized in every aspect by the synergy of profit and people.
Co-capitalism:
Profit-driven enterprise, owned and led by self-managed teams focused on maximizing the value proposition for themselves and customers.
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