Not hiding anything from your audience
Making everything internal – public knowledge
Posting all staff salaries on your intranet
Staff setting their own pay rises
No official office hours
Staff setting their own hours
No official office location
CEO’s cell phone number on the company website
Every employee a shareholder
Sharing all company financials with everyone (internal & external)
Telling consumers your actual profit margin on the product
Telling consumers the retailers profit margin
Maybe printing these profit margins on the packaging
Staff voting on who should get the internal promotion
Suppliers voting on who gets a promotion
First in, best dressed at the car park
Hot desking – corner office to first person to sit there
No offices at all; or offices for all
Staff doing performance reviews of their superiors
Staff setting their managers salary
All performance reviews posted on the intranet
Any staff member allowed to talk to any media person, on any topic
Your bonus this year, is paid on how the company performs in 5 years
(yes, you have to wait, but we pay it even when you’ve left!)
Publishing the carbon output of the company
Publishing waste created per product
Publishing energy used per product
No email
No meeting rooms (no formal meetings)
A public company blog, an staff member can post on (no moderating)
Sure, some of these things would cause chaos, increase politicking, maybe even fraud. But maybe, just maybe, these ideas could transform your start up into something revolutionary.
What can you think of that your company would never do?