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Cover story in the current (12.11) issue of BusinessWeek: "No Schedules. No Meetings. (No Joke.): Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace." The title should be motivation enough.
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Fabulous - it is called trust. Having worked for 35 years in a traditional and formal office setting I now know I was far less productive or efficient than I have been in the last 2 years when I have worked at home. The only supervisor I now have is the guy in the mirror and he is a hard task master. I am more accountable now than ever I was in a heavily ‘managed’ environment. Well done Best Buy!
Posted by Trevor Gay at December 4, 2006 5:13 PM
It's hard to tell whether this will stick or not. It isn't even rolled out to the entire corporate HQ yet, and there doesn't seem to be anything planned for the store. Best Buy seems to me to announce neat new management things a couple of times a year only to let them quietly slip away once the limelight turns to other things.
That said, there are two exciting parts of this.
First, this is the first US trial by a larger company of doing some of the things Ricardo Semler did at Semco.
Second, this was a stealth project, a real skunk works kinda thing. For me that was the more interesting part of the story.
Posted by Wally Bock at December 5, 2006 5:49 PM
Best Buy took bold initiatives and responded to the needs of the market. They sure understood some thing need to be done to accommodate the new generation. The word 'Manage' will be replaced by 'Colloborate' in the Business dictionary.
Any individual can see the changes happening in the marketplace but responding to the changes is a big deal for the companies. If the company is big the changes are even harder to implement.
Best Buy's competitor in Richmond, VA trying to imitate the success of Best Buy by implementing same business initiatives. But due to its culture it is falling short of doing anything right. What worked for Best Buy is not working for them.
One thing for sure, it is the culture of Business which allows them to be flexible, efficient in responding to the changes.
Posted by Gopal Kandasamy at December 5, 2006 9:11 PM
Hi Tom. A similar experience to Best Buy's can be found at SEMCO. Check the books "Maverick" or "The 7 days weekend" by Ricardo Semler.
Posted by Bernardo Costa at December 11, 2006 11:00 AM