Changes to Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's... by Ricardo Semler

Added a quotation: “...either you can adopt sophisticated, complex systems to try to manage the complications, or you can simplify everything.”

Added a quotation: “...a switch at the top, restructuring, layoff, expansion. Almost any change can be an excuse for poor time management. To allow such events to shape one's workday is to become a mere cork that bobs up and down on the sea.”

Added a quotation: “If we're afraid to let people decide in which section of the plane to sit, or how many stars their hotel should have, we shouldn't be sending them abroad to do business in our name, should we?”

Added a quotation: “My role is that of a catalyst. I try to make an environment in which others make decisions. Success means not making them myself.”

This is the international bestseller that tells how Semler tore up the rule books - and defied inflation running at up to 900 per cent per year! Workers make decisions previously made by their bosses. Managerial staff set their own salaries and bonuses. Everyone has access to the company books. No formality - a minimum of meetings, memos and approvals. Internal walls are torn down. Shopfloor workers set their own productivity targets and schedules. Result - Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, and with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it. Learn Ricardo's secrets and let some of the Semco magic rub off on you and your company.

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Every Wednesday afternoon dozens of men and women file through the front gate on their way to a third-floor meeting room at Semco, the company I lead in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace (edit title)