Book review: Maverick by Ricardo Semler
There’s a reason for this being the first book review posted on my blog: this book should definitely be on the reading-list of every entrepreneur or manager. I think Ricardo Semler is a true visionary regarding organizational structure and I believe every company could learn from his practices.
In Maverick, Ricardo Semler tells the story of how he transformed the company he inherited from his father in the 1980’s. The Brazilian manufacturing company, Semco, had a (traditional) hierarchical structure when Ricardo took over the business from his father. The book describes how Ricardo started changing the organization into a circular structure where every employee knows what’s going on in the company and, more importantly, understands what their own role, responsibility and value is.
