Mind Challenge Index

  1. 1

    • Creating a Culture of Openness: Rethinking the 21st Century Workplace

    • Guidelines CoachingOurselves Module

    • Management Happenings (10 min.)
  2. 2

    • Topic Overview (2 min.)
  3. 3

    • Semco – A Model of Openness (5 min.)

    • Transformation: It’s Up to You (1 min.)

    • Elements of an Open Culture (5 min.)

    • Empowering People in a Flexible Workplace (15 min.)

    • Letting People Pursue Their Passions (15 min.)

    • Democratic Leadership (15 min.)

    • Transparent Planning and Budgeting (15 min.)

    • Creating Trust and Shared Values (15 min.)

    • Participatory Decision Making (15 min.)

    • Is Change Possible? (1 min.)

    • Group Discussion (15 min.)

    • Towards Openness (1 min.)
  4. 4

    • Wrap up (5 min.)

    • That's it!

    • Reading and References

Instructor(s)

Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler is president of Semco, a successful global conglomerate headquartered in Brazil. He is internationally renowned as the creator of the world’s most unusual workplace where traditional organizational hierarchies, employment policies, and ideas about profit and growth are questioned and often overthrown. He was twice named Brazil’s Business Leader of the Year. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Semler speaks five languages fluently. He is the author of Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace and The Seven Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works.