I, Tomato: Morning Star's Radical Approach to Management
About 6 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Alex Manning.
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Disgusted Dem||      It's wonderful to see Morning Star with
such a company culture. It's the same one that used to be
present at Hewlett-Packard for decades before the late 90's. And
HP had that culture because Bill and Dave took post Depression
American values, such as individual initiative and
responsibility, and made that the basis for how employees did
their work.      Unfortunately, HP's culture mutated into
decision making by consensus. And when that bogged things down,
it mutated into very rigid top down decision making and micro
management. Hopefully, Morning Star can avoid that path.    •
John||      In order for that to work, you have to have
employees who are committed to the product. Once you get bean
counters who care only about making money, the whole culture
goes to shit. When HP started it was made up by people who h