Dave Pollard的“Natural Enterprise/自然企业”模型:

“自然企业”有这样几个特点(相比之下,第五维多么“不自然”):
1. 如果你在开始之前作了适当而又透彻的研究,你实质上可以消除生意失败的风险和与之相伴的压力;(If you do your research properly and thoroughly before you begin, you can virtually eliminate the risk of business failure and the stress that goes with it.)
2. 为你的生意在财务上进行合理安排:少负债,债权人要看好你所作事情的价值,并且不要求过高的回报,也不以对你的生意施加影响作为他们投资的交换。做到以上这些,生意就将一直在你的掌控之中;(If you finance your business organically, you owe less, and those you owe appreciate the value of what you do and demand neither exorbitant returns on or influence over the business in return for their investment, so the business is always fully in your control.)
3. 如果你细致深入地进行市场营销,你的营业间接成本将非常少,你的言语将更加强有力;(If you market your business virally, your overhead costs are dramatically less and your message is dramatically more powerful.)
4. 如果你和你热爱、同时其技能与你互补的人结成生意伙伴,你们从一开始就达成运营的原则,所有与公司管理和人力资源相关的问题(包括薪资、招募、激励、升迁、旷工、战略以及作出罕见的经营决策)都能正常解决。公司里将没有官僚主义,每个人都将在协作中作出那些真正解决实际问题的决定,使公司保持弹性,你和你的工作伙伴们充满活力,心情愉快。(If you do business as equal partners with people you love and whose skills complement your own, and you agree on operating principles at the outset, all of the managerial and 'HR' issues of your company (salaries, recruitment, motivation, promotion, absenteeism, strategy and unpopular executive decision-making) disappear. There is no hierarchy and everyone makes decisions collaboratively and improvisationally, making your company resilient and keeping you and your co-workers empowered and happy.)
来源:Dave Pollard“To Be Of Use”