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

Semler, Ricardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446516961 ISBN 13: 9780446516969

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1993

Synopsis

It can if you think like Ricard Semler, the maverick CEO who turned his own company into a model for the 90's and beyond. In MAVERICK, Semler will tell you how he changed his company and how you can change yours...if you dare! The extraordinary true story of 34-year-old CEO Ricardo Semler and of the rebirth of his family owned Brazilian manufacturing company, Semco. MAVERICK is a chronicle of corporate change--a change so vast and successful that Semco has been visited by over 400 corporate representatives from around the world who want to see it in action. In 1980, 21-year-old Ricardo Semler took over the reins of the company his father founded and built. Ricardo proceeded to break every rule of doing business, firing an entire echelon of upper level managers. Once he opened the floodgates to change, Semler never--even when he was tempted to--closed them again. Semler's management system allows employees to work at home, study and discuss the company's financial statements, make corporate decisions, take over the cafeteria kitchen, start their own business with company assets, and redesign the products Semco builds and how they are built. The result: in 10 years of constant experimentation--a time period in which Brazil's economy faltered--Semco has achieved a growth rate of 600%! In chronicling Semco's inner revolution, Semler shows how his radical ideas and strategies, as well as his nuts and bolts specifics, can be applied to any company anywhere.

About this title

About the Author:

Ricardo Semler is the CEO of Semco S.A.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0446516961
• ISBN 13: 9780446516969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335