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Oct 9, 2024 10:32 PM

Author:Ricardo Semler

Maverick

The international bestseller that tells how Semler tore up the rule books - and defied inflation running at up to 900% per year!

- Workers make decisions previously made by their bosses

- Managerial staff set their own salaries and bonuses

- Everyone has access to the company books

- No formality - a minimum of meetings, memos and approvals

- Internal walls torn down

- Shopfloor workers set their own productivity targets and schedules

Result - Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, and with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it.

Learn Ricardo's secrets and let some of the Semco magic rub off on you and your company.

Reviews

The way that Ricardo Semler runs his company is impossible; except th at it works, and works splendidly for everyone. I relish this book. It revived my faith in human beings and my hope for business everywhere

—— Charles Handy

In this book, Ricardo Semler tells how Semco, Latin America's fastest growing company, uses a revolutionary way of working to run a profit-making company with a work force who love their jobs.

—— The Sunday Times

Are there real-life lessons to be learned? The answer is yes...Pragmatic, inspirational and intriguing advice.

—— The Times

Ricardo Semler is our kind of capitalist

—— Guardian

Semco takes workplace democracy to previously unimagined frontiers

—— The Times

This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.

—— Ambassador

Handy has that rare gift among business writers - able to talk sense and leave out the jargon - This title will appeal to a very wide audience, because it is everything a business book should be - very readable and thought provoking.

—— Business and Computer

Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had

—— Guardian

He is a natural communicator whose passion for art is expressed with wit and verve

—— Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England

Hugely accessible . . . writes about difficult things without letting on that they are difficult

—— Independent on Sunday on What Are You Looking At?

The Shock of the New redone à la Bill Bryson . . . richly detailed and highly entertaining

—— Daily Telegraph on What Are You Looking At?

Lively, fresh, energetic . . . He explains movements and "isms" with clarity and humour

—— Scotsman on What Are You Looking At?

An astounding book about an astounding place

—— Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise

An intimate perspective on one of the world's greatest institutions. But All the Beauty in the World is about much more: the strange human impulse to make art, the mystery of experiencing art, and what role art can play in our lives. What a gift

—— Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

This book will change your experience of museums, connecting you with the stories of those who make them possible and revealing the layers of wonder that gather in the quiet halls where art meets modern life. Bringley's keen, warm-hearted dispatches remind us - as art itself should - of our common humanity

—— Mark Vanhoenacker, author of Imagine a City

Intimate and fascinating

—— Town and Country

Perhaps most importantly, though, All the Beauty in the World is a story about grief and about beauty, and about how inextricably the two are linked

—— Vox

Nails the very particular thing of spending your days in galleries, and how close you grow to the works and the people that come to see them

—— Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, Elle Decoration

Illuminating and transformative

—— Kerry James Marshall, Artist

A profound homage to the marvels of a world-class museum and a radiant chronicle of grief, perception, and a renewed embrace of life

—— Booklist

Prepare to be wooed by this memoir, which doubles as a loving memoir of the Met from one of its most inside insiders: Patrick Bringliey, who worked at the museum as a guard for a decade.

—— LitHub

A beautiful tale about beauty. It is also a tale about grief, balancing solitude and comradeship, and finding joy in both the exalted and the mundane

—— Washington Post

Bringley's memoir abounds with small details ... but it also has grander subjects to address - namely, solitude, the staying power of art, and grief. ... In the end, All the Beauty in the World is an empathetic chronicle of one museum, the works collected there and the people who keep it running - all recounted by an especially patient observer

—— New York Times Book Review

Simply wonderful. This funny, moving, beautifully written book takes the reader on a journey that unfolds as epiphanies. It is a testament to the capacity of art to illuminate life

—— Keith Christiansen, Curator Emeritus, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Few know the secrets of the Metropolitan Museum of Art like the guards who roam its two million square feet treasure, keeping an eye on its treasures. For a decade, Patrick Bringley was one of them, and in this moving memoir, he recounts bonding with his colleagues and marveling at the beautiful works of art he is entrusted to protect

—— New York Post

A unique workplace memoir that tells the tale of the museum and the people who keep it running

—— Book Riot

As rich in moving insights as the Met is in treasures, All the Beauty in the World reminds us of the importance of learning not about art, but from it. This is art appreciation at a profound level

—— NPR

An empathetic chronicle of one museum, the works collected there and the people who keep it running - all recounted by an especially patient observer

—— The New York Times Book Review

A profound homage to the marvels of a world-class museum and a radiant chronicle of grief, perception, and a renewed embrace of life

—— Bookpage

Hessel's beautifully written 500-year survey is a welcome, necessary, addition to the bookshelves

—— Claire Armitstead , Guardian

Highly readable and lavishly illustrated... a rich storehouse of groundbreaking female art

—— Liz Hodgkinson , The Lady

Astonishing

—— Bella Mackie

This book changes everything. As soon as you open it, it's like you've opened a box of lit fireworks - out soars great artist after great artist. Her retake on the canon has changed it forever

—— Ali Smith , Observer

Hessel possesses that rare quality of a public intellectual, whereby she can distill vast amounts of knowledge and history into something accessible, relevant and joyful

—— Pandora Sykes

Extraordinary

—— L.A. Times
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