My frustration: Hierarchy Homogenization.
These days, everything is a corporation, with its CXOs and phalanx of vice presidents. Even the government has been condemned, with a straight face and total sincerity, for not being run more like a corporation. Corporations aren't, or ought not to be, the final form of our country's countless organizations.
What about all the other hierarchies we used to respect? What about coaches (of sports teams), editors (of newspapers), principals (of schools), captains (of ships), directors (of films), and so forth? Nowadays those hierarchies are strictly confined to their historic boundaries, while the “business side” of their operations has been supplanted with corporate hierarchical arrangements in order to satisfy the legalities of doing business such as we have set for ourselves in America. Meanwhile, most if not all new ventures in the country are not given any colorful structure all their own; they're structured with that bland corporate style and nothing else. Ugh! By itself a corporate hierarchy is well and good, but as the be-all and end-all for organization in America I find it sorely disappointing. I think that by perceiving everything in corporate terms we are missing out in many cases on better ways of doing things. Look at the etymology of some of those other words to get just a taste of what we're missing.
My enterprise will deliberately eschew any semblance of corporate hierarchy, beyond the minimum legally necessary to operate as a corporation. There might be a CEO on paper, but the real power will be arranged along an axis of Pooh-Bahs, Gurus, Goalies, and Spalpeens.
