Company Policies-56-Green-Earth-Computers.com

Distinguishing Between a Policy and a Law:

A person subject to a law must follow the exact wording of the law. A law leaves no room to adjust to in the moment conditions and circumstances. It's a dead product of history. In sharp contrast, a policy follows the spirit of the law and is thus alive and gives life and spirit to the here-and-now decision that must be made.

A policy is a guideline for a person to use in making decisions and taking action. Because it is not a carved-in-stone rule, it allows flexibility. It empowers the person(s) with the ability to make in the moment decisions that consider the immediate circumstances and allow for appropriate adjustments to current conditions.

As much as possible at Green-Earth-Computers.com, we follows the spirit of the law. The intent of that spirit is to function in the long-term, highest and best interest of all concerned, including the environment and including future generation as yet unborn. Readers are directed to the page on The Peaceful Revolution .com website titled: For Whom We Speak.²

At Green-Earth-Computers.com, we design, build, and manage our business based upon the corporate model described as The New Corporate World Foundations, Win-Win Business structure.² Under this management structure, corporate employees, corporate customers, and the environment hold equal priority with making a profit.

This Hybrid Business Structure combines an independently controlled non-profit foundation with a profit making corporation to maximize the best characteristics of each and minimize the highly destructive aspect of most, large, present-day corporations. That destructive aspect is: "profits first -- profits at the expense of everything and everyone else."

We partner our non-profit foundation and our profit-making corporation because there are major and very significant differences between the two, because each provides benefits that the other cannot provide, and because each has tools that the other doesn't have. This concept, how it works, and what it accomplishes are described in considerable detail on The New Corporate World Foundation's website. **ncw2

A Huge Financial Advantage: The NCW business structure gives us a huge financial advantage over other computer companies. Why? Because At Green-Earth-Computers.com, The Great God, "Money" is our partner not our master. We are not beholding to money lenders. We are not required to show a profit on the next corporate quarterly report . The money that corporations normally pay out to stockholders will be redirected back to the foundations named beneficiaries -- employees (including management) customers, the environment, and any remaining stockholders. This business structure, how it works, and what it accomplishes are described in considerable detail on The New Corporate World Foundation's website. **ncw2

An even bigger Business Advantage: With the money that will not be going to Wall Street investors, we will be able to provide high quality products and services at a competitive price. Imagine upgrading your computer system for a fraction of what a competitor must charge who sells you a complete new system. Competitors are selling customers components of their system that don't really need replacing. Which brings up the issues of trash, recycling and environmental destruction.

The Environmental Advantage: Green-Earth-Computers.com will be by far the greenest computer maker in the entire computer industry. Our process is about producing computer products that are designed for a very long life and producing product in which only the essential obsolete components are replaced at the time of upgrade. Environmentalists will love our products. So will our customers. Everybody wins by buying their next computer from Green-Earth-Computers.com.

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Because of the way most major corporations are presently being managed, product quality and customer service are placed somewhere down the priority list, well after profits for investors and high salaries and benefits for top management. This also applies to most major computer companies. In all to many cases, producing products and providing services have become little more than tools with which to create a profit that will show up on the next quarterly report.

By divorcing ourselves from the Wall Street money lenders, the corporate structure used by Green-Earth-Computers.com will be able to focus on both product quality and customer service.¹

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A Touch of History: If you've been around computers for more than ten years, you will probably recall that computer manufacturers used to put large, cumbersome, instruction manuals in the boxes with the computers they sold. They were written by computer technicians in language that only the technicians understood. These books commonly left out portions of the instructions under the assumption the the reader knew what the "widget" or a "G274 File" was and where in his/her computer files to find it.

As a consequences of this unsuccessful attempt at communication, and to save money, the computer manufactures stopped printing instruction manual and shifted to offering online instructions.

History All Over Again: As anyone who has ever attempted to use these online instructions, you will notice that they still haven't bothered to learn to communicate. Finding specific instructions is like a blind man searching a library by himself. Once one actually finds the area of interest, they find instructions for six or eight different models of their products all mixed together. They still use technical language and acronyms without defining what the words or acromyms mean. The so-called instruction are filled with groups of letters that designate something that most ordinary folk must stop and say, "What does that mean?"

There Is Another Way: At Green-Earth-Computers.com, we promise, to the best or our ability, to create computer-friendly products and to write our instructions in language that the average non-computer-literate person can understand. All special terms will be clearly defined.² Each model of our products will have it's own complete, separate set of instructions available on line. A person trained in communication skill will oversee our instruction files and whenever additional clarity can be added, he/she will make the appropriate adjustments. Customers are invited and encourages to offer suggestions.

Customer Service

Customer Service by Phone: We will also have customer service representatives available by phone 24-7. With regard to online customer service, godaddy.com is our role model. This company offers an outstanding example of fast, efficient, and competent customer service. We will add one advantage over Go Daddy. As far as paying for the phone calls, our phone service will be tole free to the customer.

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We Use the Kaizen approach to better product design, to improved customer service, to more efficient and effective company functionality, and better customer relations. The Kaizen approach invites employees to suggest small improvements in our company's products and/or services, and/or the internal workings of the company. **tlc4

We also invite customers to suggest improvements in our company's products and or services. See the section below: Our Customers as Our Partners

Technically and legally, most of the company's stock will belong to the independently controlled, non-profit foundation associated with profit-making portion of Green- Earth-Computers.com. In terms of who reaps the rewards, the foundation's assets will be directed to the foundation's named beneficiaries: 1) corporate management, 2) corporate employees, 3) corporate customers, 4) the environment, and 5) the remaining stockholders. The Foundation will also have a discretionary fund whose purpose and use will be determined on an ongoing basis.

The employees, including management as beneficiaries: This will produce: 1) Safe healthy working conditions, 2) Adequate health care for employees and their immediate families, 3) Fair and adequate wages, and 4) Any additional benefits that the foundation managers deem appropriate and reasonable under the conditions and circumstances of the moment.

The customers as beneficiaries: This will allow us to produce the best possible products and services that we can provide at any given time and to do so at a fair price.

The Environment as a Beneficiary: This approach will also allow the company to consider: 1) its carbon footprint, 2) the use, recycling, or disposal of the byproducts of production that it creates, 3) its other environmental impacts, and 4) the eventual disposal and/or recycling of its products after the completion of the products effective service life.

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Safety First: The first rule for a wise investor is to protect his/her capital investment. There are considerations for risk. Usually the higher-risk investments offer the higher returns, but the bottom line is to protect one's investment.

A False Sense of Safety: In the economic boom that followed WWII, millions of Americans were conned into violating that rule by taking their retirement moneys in the form of promises to pay by the corporations they worked for. Instead of having their money moved into a independently-controlled retirement trust, they left their retirement money in the hands of the corporate executives. In hindsight, this was obviously a huge mistake. What they did was the financial equivalent of asking an alcoholic to guard their liquor cabinet.

The "Fit Hits the Shan": Unfortunately for the employees, their retirement money was being managed by people whose loyalty was to themselves and to the super-wealthy money interests and not by the employees. In 199---, when American Airlines, got itself in financial difficulty, the company executives convinced the politicians to change the rules so that the corporation could legally default on its promises to its employees. American Airlines reneged on its promises to its employees and proceeded to raped its employees retirement system.

Soon, other corporation management teams saw this as their role model, and within a couple of years, millions of corporate employees in thousands of corporations, found them selves the victims of a systematic pillaging of their retirement moneys.

There Is Another Way: In sharp contrast to the above debacle, Green-Earth-Computers.com will have a completely-independent retirement trust controlled and managed by professional investment consultants, who can and will be hired and fired by the collective wishes of the employees and retired employees. Readers are directed to the page titled:
http://www.EconomicSanity101.com/rt-0-retirement-trust.html#83

Readers might be interested in how the politicians destroyed the social security system -- how they turned the potential for a 40-trillion-dollar investment portfolio into a 40-trillion-dollars liability. Readers are directed to the page titled:
http://www.EconomicSanity101.com/Rt-3-Protecting-retirement-funds.html#UnitedStatesSocialSecurity

Now, here's the personal bottom line for you:
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Corporations may say they want feedback from their customers, but when was the last time you received a message like this:

We value your input. You, obviously, can see our product (or service) from an outsiders perspective -- from a perspective that escapes us. We'd like you help in improving our product and service. Please contact us if you have suggestions.

Green-Earth-Computers.com is in the process of setting up a rewards program that will offer free or reduced-price products or services to customers who contact us with usable suggestions.

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Corporate executives have the tendency to place their own financial well-being ahead of everything and everyone else. At Green-Earth-Computers.com, this will be counterbalanced by the fact that executive compensation, including all perks, benefits, and the like, must be approved by the partnering non-profit foundation.

Executive Salaries: Executive salaries will be related to the average worker's salaries with a maximum ratio of twenty to one. In other words, the highest-paid person in the company can receive a maximum of twenty times the amount paid to the lowest paid person.

Bonuses: Unless specifically approved by the foundation, bonuses paid will go to all employees, not just to those managing the company. Bonuses will be paid in proportion to the pay scale, so that everybody is rewarded when the company does well.

The Accumulation of Excessive Wealth: Any person, no matter how competent or skilled they are who transfers more than fifty million dollars of his company's profits into his/her private holdings is guilty of price gouging his customers and/or taking unfair advantage of his/her employees, and/or destroying the environment.

Presently, we hear the fairytale that corporation must pay executives outrageous bonuses, or they will not be able to attract competent leadership. The evidence from thousands of well-run corporations shows that story to belong in the sewer.

Excess Corporate Profits: Any company that is making huge profits is overcharging its customers. An ethical company will generate a profit and balance the profit with its product price so that the company gets a reasonable financial reward for its products and services and the customer pays a fair price.

At Green-Earth-Computers.com, both our corporate and our foundation bylaws will have articles in them limiting cumulative, long-term executive and/or stockholder compensation.

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Notes and References

**ncw2**ncw2 The New Corporate World Foundation's Win-Win Business Structure is described in great detail on TLC-Life-Center's website:

An "A to Z" description of the project (in an interview format) can be found on TLC-Life-Center's website:

http://www.New-Corporate-World.info/interview.html#39 ²

^**tlc4 **tlc4 Kaizen -- Making Changes One Step at a Time

http://www.TLC-Life-Center.info/kaizen.html#33 ²