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Ricardo Semler, CEO and majority owner of the Brazil-based Semco Partners, practices asking “Why?” three times. This is true when questioning his own motives, or when tackling big projects.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Employees must be free to question, to analyze, to investigate; and a company must be flexible enough to listen to the answers. Those habits are the key to longevity, growth, and profit.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace BY RICARDO SEMLER
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Information in any organization should be information on demand.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
Companies respect conformity and uniformity, but they fail to see how limiting both are.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
Each group of six to ten people, once every six months, puts together the numbers for their unit.
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
“a rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Ricardo Semler • The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
Top down change rarely occurs because the management tribe typically prefers to lay the burden on the employees rather than hoist it onto its own shoulders.