![]() ![]() Either you can create complex systems so as to manage complexity, or you can simplify everything.It is impossible to understand life in all its hugeness and complexity if one is constantly consulting a minute counter. Eliminate the wearing of wristwatches whenever and wherever possible.Set up workers in their own businesses as suppliers to the company.Job rotation 20% of managers shift jobs each year.Eliminate policies and rules wherever possible. Substitute the survival manual for thick procedure manuals.In practice they always vote for equal dollar shares. They must vote to determine the manner of each quarterly distribution. Employees vote how the pool will be split. Consider these criteria: what they think they can make elsewhere what others with similar skills and responsibilities make in the Company what friends with similar backgrounds make how much they need to live on. Allow employees to set their own salary.Salaries are public information unless the employee requests that they not be published.Every six months bosses are evaluated by their subordinates and the results are posted.You can’t expect involvement to flourish without an abundance of information available to all employees. Share all information and eliminate secrets.Demonstrate trust by eliminating symbols of corporate oppression as well as the perks of status.Coordinators are the only supervisory level and are all at the same organisational level but different pay rates. Implement a rounded pyramid organisation structure with floating coordinators.Make each business unit small enough so that those involved understand everything that is going on and can influence the outcomes.By working in clusters or teams assembling a complete product, not just an isolated component, it gives people more control and responsibility which makes them happier and our products better.When you eliminate rigid thought and hierarchical structure things usually get messy.Focus on personal freedom, individualism and competition.Workers and bosses are associates and coordinators.By keeping it simple they have reduced the corporate staff of legal accounting and marketing by 75%, whittled bureaucracy from 12 layers of management to 3. The basic message is to use your common sense. ![]() A company should trust its destiny to its employees Leadership should not get lost in an endless search for consensus: that people are free to work as they like when they like that bosses don’t have to be parents and workers don’t act like children. “Maverick” tells the story of the transformation of Semco into a radical and high performing organisation. ![]() Forget socialism, capitalism, just in time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest of it and concentrate on building organisations that accomplish the most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning. ![]()
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