Known for a radical form of industrial democracy at his Brazilian company, whose revenue grew from $4 million in 1982 to $212 million in 2003; Time named him a Global 100 young leader.
Maverick documents what happened at Semco when workers elected their own managers, read the full financial statements and set their own salaries, and how the company performed through Brazilian hyperinflation while doing it. The Seven-Day Weekend extends the argument to scheduling and to how a company without a fixed strategy department decides which businesses to enter.
2 books of their own · 7 books they recommend
| Maverick | – | 1993 | T3 | Andrew Wilkinson, Jason Fried, Ryan Peterson |
The Seven-Day Weekend | – | 2003 | T3 | Ev Williams |
Short parables and paradoxes from Kafka's fiction and letters, in German and English.
A stranded pilot meets a prince from a tiny asteroid who tells him of his rose.
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