{"id":845,"date":"2005-12-12T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=845"},"modified":"2006-03-01T05:14:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T13:14:50","slug":"ricardo-semler-the-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/ricardo-semler-the-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Semler, the optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to get enough of Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Brazil&#8217;s Semco.  In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/press\/article\/05408?pg=all&#038;tid=230\">new article from Strategy+Business<\/a> he talks about participatory management:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Asked why true participative management is still such a rarity, Mr. Semler cites two elements that he says are in sadly short supply: &#8220;One, the people in charge wanting to give up control. This tends to eliminate some 80 percent of business people. Two, a profound belief that humankind will work toward its best version, given freedom; that would eliminate the other 20 percent,&#8221; he says.<\/div>\n<p>The only reason there aren&#8217;t more people like Ricardo Semler is simply that it takes overwhelming courage to buck the experts and prove them wrong.  But for those of us that believe, like Semler, &#8220;that humankind will work towards its best version, given freedom,&#8221; he continues to be an inspiration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to get enough of Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Brazil&#8217;s Semco. In a new article from Strategy+Business he talks about participatory management: Asked why true participative management is still such a rarity, Mr. Semler cites two elements that he says are in sadly short supply: &#8220;One, the people in charge wanting to give up control. This tends to eliminate some 80 percent of business people. Two, a profound belief that humankind will work toward its best version, given freedom; that would eliminate the other 20 percent,&#8221; he says. The only reason there aren&#8217;t more people like Ricardo Semler &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-dD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}