Excerpts from Ricardo Semler's book "Maverick: The Success Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace"
Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Excerpts from Ricardo Semler's book "Maverick: The Success Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace" (citing Ricardo Semler's Maverick):
"In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest – quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all – will follow. At Semco we did away with strictures that dictate the “hows” and created fertile soil for differences. We gave people an opportunity to test, question, and disagree. We let them determine their own futures. We let them come and go as they wanted, work at home if they wished, set their own salaries, choose their own bosses. We let them change their minds and ours, prove us wrong when we are wrong, make us humbler."
See also his follow-up post Tips on how to work smarter from Ricardo Semler.
