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I read about this idea once as a case study. I think it was first tried at a manufacturing company[0] in Brazil where everyone from the CEO down to the packers
by willyt 10y ago
I read about this idea once as a case study. I think it was first tried at a manufacturing company[0] in Brazil where everyone from the CEO down to the packers in the dispatch shed has their salary decided by a consensus employees. It's a 3000 person company with a revenue of $160m now.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
http://www.freibergs.com/resources/articles/leadership/semco-insanity-that-works/ http://www.freibergs.com/resources/articles/leadership/semco... https://hbr.org/1989/09/managing-without-managers https://hbr.org/1989/09/managing-without-managers
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThat's incredible. Thanks a million for those links as I try to collect these to get something close to significant data on them for analysis.
- earljwagner 10y agoYou might also be interested in books that profile other companies experimenting with this kind of transparency: "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" by Kegan and Lahey The latter profiles Bridgewater, a hedge fund in which every meeting is recorded and available to anyone in the company via the intranet.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoThat's eerily similar to a scene from Atlas Shrugged.