Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

"The international bestseller that tells how Semler tore up the rule books - and defied inflation running at up to 900% per year! ---Workers make the 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 office walls torn down --Shopfloor workers set their own productivity targets and schedules Results --- Semco, the company owned by Ricardo Semler, 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 hoping to join it! An admittedly peculiar company with a new way of running an organization. It is neither socialist nor capitalist, but has invented a new way, a third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and in every sense, rewarding way."