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In a project of this type, a sizable increase of productivity (up to 300%) can be obtained by a systematic use of participative management, instead of traditional bureaucratic management.
The style of management advocated, centred on the person, will promote a faster growth rate, reduce the need for supervision and it will secure continuous motivation and creativity.
In this project the basic social structure is based on an enlarged family model, made by a master of art (baker, cabinet maker, bee keeper etc), his family, his apprentices and his visitors.
The fact to be living together in the same smallholding will consent a far better quality of living than if everyone was living on their own premises.
In addition, the possibility to sit together during dinner will provide the opportunity to continuous cultural enrichment, based on the free exchange of ideas.
It will be the family/working unit as a whole to take decisions regarding matters of common interest and to delegate one of the members to represent them at higher level.
This management style, opposing the concept that directives must always emanate from the top and "explained" to subordinates, is based on the proven tendency of every human being to realize his potential at his best when the obstacles to his natural development are removed.
For this reason, when in one operational unit the single individuals are helped to harmonize their natural tendencies of self-realization, it follows a remarkable increase in productivity together with less need of supervision.
From the entrepreneurial point of view this person centred management style brings a far more stable and productive workforce, no resistance to professional mobility and a sharp reduction on supervision costs.
One added benefit is the enormous contribution to realize one harmonious atmosphere, ideal for a village that looks at the tourists as it’s main source of income.
For these reasons the residents should enjoy a very large decisional power (within well-defined parameters) regarding constructions of residential, commercial, industrial, public and agricultural buildings and the best utilization of the land at their disposal.
This will avoid (yet maintaining a style homogenous) the artificiality and depressing architectural monotony of the conventional tourist villages.
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