Former chief executive of the Brazilian manufacturer Semco, where he removed most management controls and let staff set pay and hours.
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.
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