{"id":1287,"date":"2015-03-02T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladam.info\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:35:42","slug":"ricardo-semler-on-his-radical-form-of-corporate-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/2015\/03\/02\/ricardo-semler-on-his-radical-form-of-corporate-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Semler on his radical form of corporate democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a_company_a_school_a_life?language=en<br \/>\nOn accumulating money:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"t-773998\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"773998\">[&#8230;] <strong>if you&#8217;re giving back<\/strong><strong>, you took too much.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And some of the other very interesting things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"t-158767\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"158767\">And so we said, look, the retirement,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-160964\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"160964\">the whole issue of how we distribute our graph of life.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-164106\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"164106\">Instead of going mountain climbing when you&#8217;re 82,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-167263\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"167263\">why don&#8217;t you do it next week?<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-169436\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"169436\">And we&#8217;ll do it like this,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-170791\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"170791\">we&#8217;ll sell you back your Wednesdays for 10 percent of your salary.<\/span><br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<span id=\"t-300699\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"300699\">We said things like,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-302215\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"302215\">why can&#8217;t people set their own salaries?<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-305544\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"305544\">What do they need to know?<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-307120\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"307120\">There&#8217;s only three things you need to know:<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-309183\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"309183\">how much people make inside the company,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-311518\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"311518\">how much people make somewhere else in a similar business<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-314387\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"314387\">and how much we make in general to see whether we can afford it.<\/span><span id=\"t-317679\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"317679\">So let&#8217;s give people these three pieces of information.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-320264\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"320264\">So we started having, in the cafeteria,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-322272\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"322272\">a computer where you could go in and you could ask<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-324773\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"324773\">what someone spent, how much someone makes,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-326970\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"326970\">what they make in benefits, what the company makes,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-329450\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"329450\">what the margins are, and so forth.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"t-331760\" class=\"talk-transcript__fragment\" data-time=\"331760\">And this is 25 years ago.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a_company_a_school_a_life?language=en On accumulating money: [&#8230;] if you&#8217;re giving back, you took too much. 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