It’s well known that Google encourages their employees to spend roughly equal to one day per week pursuing personal projects, or about 20% of their time at work. The results of this unique policy are numerous and successful: Gmail, Google Suggest, Google News, AdSense and Orkut. What would happen if an accounting firm allowed their […]

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I have often wondered whether the tradi­tional method of providing audited financial state­ments to clients is really serving them as well as we could be. We print them up on nice thick paper with the firm’s letterhead and spiral bound the package with a tasteful, under­stated title page, followed by our solemn audit report. Is […]

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I blogged about Semco SA yesterday, but it was a shallow, dull post merely outlining the ways in which the management philosophy has improved opera­tions for the Brazilian manufac­turing and environmental/IT services company. Some more inter­esting details: Due to management style clashes with his father and founder of the company, current CEO Ricardo Semler threatened […]

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Semco is a Brazilian company that has recently taken digg by storm and is making waves amongst more real world folks too. The company is turning pretty much every­thing we know about how to run a business organi­zation upside down, and getting great results doing just that. The long and short of it: Employees set their own […]

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David Rachford has floated the novel (to say the least) idea of marketing a public accounting firm using MySpace.com. For the last couple weeks — I’ve been wondering — With MySpace.com becoming the most popular website in the world — does that matter to me? (I don’t have a myspace account — thank you) but […]

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