by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 31, 2014 | Business & Leadership
In my previous blogs, I have given some background to the story of Ricardo Semler, who took over the Brazilian manufacturing company, Semco, from his father and nearly ruined his health by behaving as the kind of hard-driving autocratic business owner that he assumed...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 31, 2014 | Business & Leadership
In my earlier blog, Ricardo Semler, Maverick: organisational democracy or anarchy? or I said that I didn’t believe that ‘democracy’ is a good model for running a modern business – despite the apparent success of Ricardo Semler, author of Maverick and The Seven...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 30, 2014 | Business & Leadership
If you are interested, as I am, in how we can drag the organisation out of the old, nineteenth-century, early-industrial structure in which it currently languishes, and create a new kind of organisation that is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century, then...
