Citizen CEO

In this post I’d like to explore a new idea with you that I think could be really quite interesting and, if you are generally supportive, could result in the foundations of a global experiment in crowd-sourcing that you all take part in.

I was thinking recently on the topic of how to demonstrate and test the power of the masses versus established ways of doing things and I hit upon the notion of the ‘Citizen CEO’.
What I mean by this is what would happen if we created a company that was completely at the mercy of the masses? In other words all of it’s core decisions were made by majority rule voting instead of by an established management team. In effect, we turn all business operational decisions over to you… the citizens, the consumers, the prosumers, the partners; to see how and where you chart this ship.

To make this even more fun we could even pit the citizen CEO business against a traditionally run business, either existing or created as a competitor for the purposes of the experiment. We could also film the proceedings which could then be shown via a weekly YouTube broadcast.

With a period of 6 months as the time-line for the experiment, the teams could then be judged on traditional metrics like revenue, margin, customer satisfaction etc and/or other relevant ones depending upon the type of business that gets decided as the proving ground.
Anyway, I think you get the idea…

So, the first step in this process is to decide whether or not this sounds like a good idea and one you believe we should pursue together. Step 2 would then be to hone in on an idea for the business itself which we can do only after this gets the thumbs up from all of you. If it does we will then make more decisions as to the direction this business takes based upon more questions and voting.  Stay tuned and thanks for reading!