"Sixty boss-less women and men own our community and its businesses which gross over two million dollars per year. We mostly choose and schedule our own work, we're not required to follow the orders of any one person empowered to retain or dismiss us from our membership and we simply scoff at the idea of time clocks or dress codes..."
"Of course, it can be hard to accomplish some tasks if someone is not at least nominally in charge. For this reason, we elect or appoint managers for different work areas...Managers do not have an especial formal rank, but rather gain the informal and unforced respect of their peers..."
"While we have mechanisms to ensure that people take a fair share in turning out to make our product (as well as to wash our communal pots and dishes), we don't have a system that ensures that the Responsibility of Managing--unadulterated by the Joys of Bossing--is distributed in an equitable manner...Sometimes the chaos of people changing and exchanging jobs develops into a void: When no one steps forward to assume responsibility, serious problems can develop. On the other hand, there's not much worry that someone will seize an unhealthy amount of power because, heck, around here, there's only so much a mortal communard can be or will want to be in charge of."
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