Tag: ricardo semler
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The Economics of Good Team Work – The Easy Way to Improve Business Profits for the Long Term
When teams hum, success flows. I wrote this article for the Al Jarida newspaper and it was published on Saturday 21 February 2015. This article took a full page to discuss the economics of good team work for a business. It is published here: Al Jarida Article 21 Feb 2015 (Go to page 12) The Economics of…
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Advice from Richard Branson: give your employees freedom
Insights from one of the world’s most successful men, by Jack Preston of Virgin You won’t come across many people who have never had a boss. The thought of not having someone to answer to at work is a peculiar one for most people, however for Richard Branson it’s a natural state of affairs.”Having always worked…
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Social Engineering: Self-Organising, Collaborating Groups, or Sociocracy for short
When you really want your project, family and community to hum, and not screach. How do you improve human group dynamics, and allow people be more productive, business to be more profitable, groups to be more self reliant, whilst at the same time have it be more satisfying, more rewarding and straight out more enjoyable…
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Ricardo Semler on Salaries
Lessons on how to set boundaries with paying employees. I found this summary concise and appropriate. The kind of conversation that can be held with a clear and level playing field. We set salaries like this: A lot of our people belong to unions, and they negotiate their salaries collectively. Everyone else’s salary involves an…
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Ricardo Semler on Compensation
How Semler eliminated Fredrick Winslow Talyor Through many years of practice and looking back on history, Semler and his colleagues devised the most natural way to work together. Employers began hiring workers by the hour during the Industrial Revolution. Their reasons were simple and rapacious. Say you ran out of cotton thread at 11:30 in…
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Managing without Managers – Ricardo Semler
How to give authority to everyone removes unnecessary layers of management I have found Semler’s work inspirational on many levels. I know that you will too. This was written by Ricardo Semler in the Sept-Oct 1989 Harvard Business Review. Over to you Ricardo… In Brazil, where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish, I…
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Productivity – How to Get the Most from Your Team: Have a Collaborative Work Culture
A simple tale on how to maximise team performance Do you operate a fear based work culture or a collaborative work culture? It’s easy to tell: just take a break, have a holiday. Come back to your work place and if it based on fear you will find work has slowed to a standstill. A collaborative work…
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