"So my question, dear friends, is this: what sorts of steps do we take to
make it possible for traditionally disempowered, knowledge-poor (in the
sense of things like basic understanding of the financial structures and
external customer requirements that drive the business) staff to choose to
broaden their own individual and common knowledge base, without
reinforcing the paternalistic structures that allowed them to languish
there in the first place?"
Look at John Stack's book THE GREAT GAME OF BUSINESS, which describes how
he showed his blue-collar workforce (engine rebuilding) how to learn about
profit & loss, cash flow, etc--all the financial numbers a business needs
Tom Stewart
-- ThosStew@aol.com