Companies, not countries, are currently destroying democracy around the world. Over the past two years, we’ve seen the rise of what I call “CDOs” – Chief Dictate Officers – controlled by fear, greed, or malicious intent, trying to control every dimension of their employees’ lives. The place where most of us spend much of our time – the workplace (whether in-person or virtual) – has become the bastion of authoritarianism. CDOs and their fellow fear-based leaders are now exerting power over every aspect of their employees’ lives. They are telling people how to think, what to say, and what to put in their bodies. They are threatening workers’ livelihoods and their sense of personal dignity and worth, stripping them of self-government.
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