Well the standard over the top reply is "What about people think that eating other humans isn't criminal? Should they be let off because of that?" While ludicrous it does point out the problem with the original statement.. in the end it is not up to the individual to determine if what they have committed a crime.. but a body of laws, treaties, wider social norms that form the legal settings they are in. Thus a person may not consider it stealing but the court they are brought to might decide otherwise.. I guess one could always apply for political prisoner status afterwords :)
[My equation of stealing Britney Spears songs to eating people is not to be a serious equation.. my opinions are my own.. etc etc]
One of my first grasping of transparency of companies was before I joined Red Hat in 1997. Before that I was living in Illinois and some people after hearing my revolutionary talk about presenting numbers to the employees to make them better employees.. pointed me towards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Stack">Jack Stack</a>. Stack was the CEO of SRC Holdings which was a steel company that turned itself around by making its books much more transparent and having an '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Book_Management">open book</a>' culture. Employees knew what people made, what costs were, where things were going and could gauge if what they were doing was helping in the short, medium, and long terms.
Having employee salaries open is one part.. another part is being able to gauge if a groups efforts are improving or decreasing profits and how to best change. If I ever have the chance to start my own company it is something I would really pursue.
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Well the standard over the top reply is "What about people think that eating other humans isn't criminal? Should they be let off because of that?" While ludicrous it does point out the problem with the original statement.. in the end it is not up to the individual to determine if what they have committed a crime.. but a body of laws, treaties, wider social norms that form the legal settings they are in. Thus a person may not consider it stealing but the court they are brought to might decide otherwise.. I guess one could always apply for political prisoner status afterwords :)
[My equation of stealing Britney Spears songs to eating people is not to be a serious equation.. my opinions are my own.. etc etc]
One of my first grasping of transparency of companies was before I joined Red Hat in 1997. Before that I was living in Illinois and some people after hearing my revolutionary talk about presenting numbers to the employees to make them better employees.. pointed me towards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Stack">Jack Stack</a>. Stack was the CEO of SRC Holdings which was a steel company that turned itself around by making its books much more transparent and having an '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Book_Management">open book</a>' culture. Employees knew what people made, what costs were, where things were going and could gauge if what they were doing was helping in the short, medium, and long terms.
Having employee salaries open is one part.. another part is being able to gauge if a groups efforts are improving or decreasing profits and how to best change. If I ever have the chance to start my own company it is something I would really pursue.