The Inverted Pyramid

A good enterprise Model

As Long as I can remember, we have looked at a typical enterprise model in the form of a pyramid or triangle. The Ceo, Cfo, and Coo are at the peak of the triangle followed by the Board of Directors, Comptroller, Vice Presidents, Supervisors, and at the bottom or base of the triangle are the workers or staff. The whole of the triangle comprises all of the people in an organization. You are also subjected to the same model even within departments of a company.

The Food Pyramid

The outline demonstrates that the most percentage of the people is closer to the base of the figure. In fact, if you think most organizations, clubs, government, etc. They all seem to flow from a top down direction where the individuals of authority at the top set course and exert power to the larger group below them. The mass at the bottom are responsible for production all work, and one would think they would and should have the most responsibility. It doesn't work that way even though the people at the bottom make all happen. They put into request for retrial all the policies, procedures, and orders handed down to them right or wrong.

In this enterprise model, the bottom people are sometimes forced to involve themselves with situations that may be wrong, offensive, inappropriate, and sometimes illegal. In this principles you can be subjected to these inequities and cannot speak out for fear of losing your job and benefits if you exertion to take an operation to exact the inequity. In this model, you may be forced to compromise your work ethic in favor of a lower standard. The succeed can be an inferior goods or assistance brought to market. In any event this working model can create unrest, frustration, injury, and sometimes violence.

It is fair to say that inequities in this model do not exist in all situations. In all that you do, communication, cooperation, and coordination in life is indispensable to achieve all that you desire. The lack of this is now very evident in business, government, and community in general. More products seem to be recalled than before. The Democratic and Republican parties in the Usa many times seem more obsessed with putting each other down than focusing of the needs of the people. What is the price that is paid for profitability and power?

How many times have you become aware of the inefficiencies in industry, government, and community where the social is knowingly given an inferior goods or service. We are finding this in more frequent goods recall. We find toxic chemicals in food and in a variety of products as well as in medication. How many times do we see, hear, and read about directives that seem contrary to tasteless sense; and policies that favor one over another. What happened to the tasteless good?

In recent years greed at the top levels of corporations, organizations, and government has been exposed that border on the unreal. City government officials nearby recently voted themselves wage and pension increases that were highly excessive and then passed legislation so that it would be held from social viewing. We read oftentimes about heads of clubs production tens of millions of dollars in annual wages and then even more in carrying out stock benefits while employees are being laid-off. It is no wonder why the top one percent of the people receives most of the income in the Usa.

I am in favor of executives being paid for their services, but there are now too many imbalances where excessive payment has become an proper practice. How can you explicate a ten million dollar annual wage when a enterprise is losing money? I perceive these executives are under greatest pressure to show a profit, but at what expense? Downsizing and restricting worker benefits are tasteless ploys to remedy lower profit margins. This is attacking the core people of a enterprise who do the most to bring a goods or assistance to market. Everybody should share in cutbacks, not just the ones at the bottom of the triangle.

Many of the inequities involve publicly traded companies. Upper level executives are under pressure to show a good profit to keep the price of their stock high to satisfy shareholders, and also certify more personal payment benefits. You can growth profits by streamlining fixed costs (lowering salaries, inventory, accounting gimmicks) just so far without imploding the company. This is happening now in our slow cheaper where debt financing has also made our economic situation even more dire. Yes, debt financing is a tasteless and needed enterprise practice, but not when there are questionable sources of repayment, and a government bailout should Not be a first alternative to keep them in operation.

What are we going to do? Think about what would happen if we turned the pyramid or triangle upside down. Now, the workers (staff) are on top and the executives are on the bottom. In this model the executives still receive adequate payment for their services, but not excessive. The input and the needs of the workers now become more paramount. They are more complicated in the profitability of the enterprise and their voices are more honestly heard. Their needs are addressed more timely and efficiently as well because all transportation now links directly to them, and gives them more involvement with the thorough enterprise operation.

There is a large commercial enterprise in Brazil that made this switch, and a book was written about its success. A enterprise in Argentina also made this switch, and it went from going out of enterprise to a prosperous entity. Why isn't it done more? Is it a greed factor of protecting the rich at the cost of the middle class? Is supervision fearful of giving lower class workers too much power to set policy? We honestly are not to judge.

In the Usa we have the relaxation to pick how to do enterprise within legal guidelines, and that is the way it should be. Since the middle class has all but disappeared because of decades of using them to finance the economy, it may be time for a change. It is time the middle class reassert themselves, and one good way is to have more clubs adopt the inverted pyramid or triangle as the enterprise model of choice.

Possibly with greater maintain to charitable organizations we can limit the government involvement in areas it does not belong. This will allow our tax dollars to go farther, and also allow the government to downsize as well.

What is it going to take to make an attitude shift to a more equitable principles where people are not left behind? I'm convinced this can be done in the underground sector, and the inverted pyramid enterprise model may be a good way to begin the changes indispensable to stabilize our cheaper and help the middle class recover and once again become the core force in the economy.

The Inverted Pyramid