Both scenarios highlight the real problem: politics driven by funding and ownership structures.
100% of companies where financial backers aren't actively involved suffer from internal politics like this—especially when they're backed by public markets, private equity, or venture capital.
Even entrepreneur-led businesses can't escape it when founders dominate. The lasting solution? Change the funding and ownership structure to eliminate hierarchy, creating true flexibility and fairness.
The approach that we use worked. It’s easy, avoids tests of this sort, and eliminates bad executive team decisions based on politics.
Both scenarios highlight the real problem: politics driven by funding and ownership structures.
100% of companies where financial backers aren't actively involved suffer from internal politics like this—especially when they're backed by public markets, private equity, or venture capital.
Even entrepreneur-led businesses can't escape it when founders dominate. The lasting solution? Change the funding and ownership structure to eliminate hierarchy, creating true flexibility and fairness.
The approach that we use worked. It’s easy, avoids tests of this sort, and eliminates bad executive team decisions based on politics.
Sins of commission and sins of omission.
Smart article. I read an article once where the expert said we are guilty of that which we failed to prevent (and could have done if we wanted).