Productive Flourishing
Kate Strathmann: Building Business Partnerships - Cooperative or Collective? (Episode 245)
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Sep 1 2022 52m
Chapter 1 8 mins
Kate talks about how someone with an art degree and a love of wandering around India ended up in bookkeeping and a finance consultancyChapter 2 2 mins
Kate defines a cooperative as a business that is owned by the people that benefit from it. There are different types of cooperatives. A worker co-op is a type of business where the employees directly own and control the business, generally on a democratic basis of one person/one voteChapter 3 7 mins
In a worker co-op, ownership derives from working in the company, rather than investing in capitalChapter 4 4 mins
Pay and power are not the same things. Just because you have 50/50 ownership in the business, it might not necessarily mean you get paid the sameChapter 5 21 mins
Kate talks about some of the conditions that skew us towards a co-op versus more of a standard partnership: the number of people, owner obsolescence, and creating a multi-generational structureChapter 6 2 mins
What is the line between resilience and interdependence?Chapter 7 1 min
Kate’s challenge: think about one way the structure of your business could shift to benefit all the humans and communities it touches