Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop (Paperback)

Ricardo Semler (author)

£10.99

Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 06/09/2001

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Synopsis

The international bestseller that tells how Semler tore up the rule books - and defied inflation running at up to 900% 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 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.

Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780712678865
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 234 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

The way that Ricardo Semler runs his company is impossible; except th at it works, and works splendidly for everyone. I relish this book. It revived my faith in human beings and my hope for business everywhere -- Charles Handy
In this book, Ricardo Semler tells how Semco, Latin America's fastest growing company, uses a revolutionary way of working to run a profit-making company with a work force who love their jobs. * The Sunday Times *
Are there real-life lessons to be learned? The answer is yes...Pragmatic, inspirational and intriguing advice. * The Times *
Ricardo Semler is our kind of capitalist * Guardian *
Semco takes workplace democracy to previously unimagined frontiers * The Times *