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Saturday, January 6, 2007

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler

My dad turned me on to this book, took me a while to pick it up but once I did I finished it in a day; very captivating read, not in the same way as the Da vinci Code code but you get the idea.

Ricardo Semler helped to create a pretty cool work environment when he took over his fathers business. He started by firing almost all of the existing upper management and then over time created a truly 'democratic' workplace. Read an overview here.

http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workplace/dp/0446670553/ref=pd_sim_b_1/105-3077826-1463608

he has some more recently published stuff as well
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/105-3077826-1463608?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ricardo%20Semler

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