Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446670553 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Semler turned his family's business, the aging Semco corporation of Brazil, into the most revolutionary business success story of our time. By eliminating uneeded layers of management and allowing employees unprecedented democracy in the workplace, he created a company that challenged the old ways and blazed a path to success in an uncertain economy.
Chapter 21, alone, justifies the purchase, and then some A Customer This book leads where few 'management" books dare not follow; it is a cold, hard truth that most management is mismanagement, and all too many organizational shortfalls derive from organizational "friction" - "friction," as in "We aren't going to do anything until the Great Leader of our team/section/group/division says so."Guess what?The Great Leader doesn't know, either; what the Great Leader DOES know is how to make the employment future of those who. David Stengle said Inspiring organization building advice. Semler's comments on how to drive ownership, culture, and integrity apply broadly to any business, and I find them particularly helpful in my work with startups. The book applies to tasks large and small. The appendices with the employee handbook and the managerial review survey are both great. The book is extremely well written, although it sounds a little glib at times. Readable, intriguing, and actionable. Highly recommended.. T SANTOSO said THE DIFFERENT BOOK, the third way of doing things.. This is a good book on the subject of MANAGING, it will NOT SUIT MOST OF THE PEOPLE, but we still can STEAL SOME METHODS and ENRICH our way of managing business. BUT IF U ARE NOT in the authority of managing that it will be useless, if u are a manager or better yet THE CEO than something can be copied from these beautiful ways of doing things. OF COURSE copying it blindly will lead u to disaster, but THIS WAY OF DOING IS PROVEN TO BE VIABLE as the alter
Semler believes that Semco is different from most companies that have participatory management because employees are given the power to make decisions--even ones, with which the CEO wouldn't normally agree. , Ohio Northern Univ. Semler claims, "This is not a business book. It is a book about work, and how it can be changed for the better." Highly recommended.- Mark McCullough, Heterick Lib. . From Library Journal First published in Brazil in 1988 as Turning the Tables , this book was the all-time best-selling nonfiction book in Brazil's history. Semler,