The Democratic Corporation

"If we subtract the value of what a firm consumes from the value of the consumption it makes possible, the difference is the wealth it creates."

"When corporations assume the role in society of producing and distributing wealth, they contribute to the development of society and its members."

"Growth does not necessarily imply an increase in value; development does."

"Workers are more likely than planners or managers to know what dissatisfies them, what causes these dissatisfactions, and what to do about them."

"The quality-of-work-life movement has not died, but it is in a coma."

"The performance of a system depends on how its parts interact, not on how they act taken separately."

"Doing things right is very different from doing the right things."

"Quality of working life depends on how democratically workplaces are organized."

"All employees should have an opportunity to serve on their immediate superiors' boards."

"Each profit center should be permitted to accumulate profit up to a level set for that particular unit."

"Conflict occurs when one party's gain is necessarily another's loss."

"Reordering the criteria used in an organization's design may be required by a change in its environment."

"In an internal market economy, the profits that product- or service-defined units generate are subject to a tax levied by a higher-level of management."