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Maverick
Ricardo Semler
Book review/summary
Reviewed by
Dave Wiseman, Team-wise.
ISBN - 0099329417
Rating - 4* |
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The story and ideas behind the man who revolutionised
one of Brazil's major manufacturing businesses. An
autobiographical work by the man behind one of Brazil's outstanding
manufacturing industries, a company to which, Semler tells
us, executives from some of the biggest and best known companies,
including IBM, General Motors, Ford, Kodak..., have been making
an unlikely pilgrimage!
When Ricardo Semler took over his fathers business it was
styled in a traditional pyramid format. But now the business
has workers who set thier own quotas, will come to work in
thier own time to ensure that they are fulfilled and enjoy
thier work. Maverick is the story of this transformation.
You are likley to develop your own strong opinion of whether
these ideas are capable of being implemented in a UK based
industry - and if they were, what the results would be.
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