Common sense at Semco - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Common sense at Semco - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog CIO insight has a truly excellent interview with Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Semco. Heres my favourite bit from the interview: When you want somebody hired, lets say its for a leadership position of some kind, you go to the system and you advertise that you think someone is needed. Then on a given day say, Wednesday at 4 oclock, meeting room 11 you say were going to discuss this, whoevers interested. Because of the fundamental tenet that we dont want anyone involved in anything that they really dont want to do, all of our meetings are on a voluntary basis, meaning that the meetings are known, and then whoever is interested can and will show up, and should also leave the moment they become uninterested. It is a bit unnerving to watch these things, because people come in, plunk their things down, and then 15 minutes later somebody else says Bye bye, see you. But the fact is that whoever is left there has a stake in the decision being made, and the decision is final in the sense that its going to be implemented after the meeting. All meetings are voluntary. How cool is that? Read the interview, its great! Also, for those of us who know Open Space Technology: Thats the law of two feet right there! Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related