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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2668132" data-attributes="member: 56035">[MEDIA=bbcnews]business-38928528[/MEDIA]No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in chargeCrisp holds four-day meetings for all staff two to three times a year. They are used to making decisions on issues that affect everyone, such as an office move, but workers are encouraged to make decisions themselves at other times.It also still has a board - a legal requirement - and this can be used as a last resort to resolve issues if something is not working.Henrik Kniberg, an organisational coach at the firm, argues that not having to ask a boss for decisions on projects or budgets means the firm can respond faster.&quot;If you want to get something done, you stand up and start driving that,&quot; he says.Yet Mr Kniberg stresses that not having to ask permission does not remove the need for staff to discuss issues or bounce ideas off each other.Because they are all in charge, workers are more motivated, he argues. Crisp regularly measures staff satisfaction, and the average is about 4.1 out of five.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2668132, member: 56035"] [MEDIA=bbcnews]business-38928528[/MEDIA] [SIZE=6][B]No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge[/B][/SIZE] Crisp holds four-day meetings for all staff two to three times a year. They are used to making decisions on issues that affect everyone, such as an office move, but workers are encouraged to make decisions themselves at other times. It also still has a board - a legal requirement - and this can be used as a last resort to resolve issues if something is not working. Henrik Kniberg, an organisational coach at the firm, argues that not having to ask a boss for decisions on projects or budgets means the firm can respond faster. "If you want to get something done, you stand up and start driving that," he says. Yet Mr Kniberg stresses that not having to ask permission does not remove the need for staff to discuss issues or bounce ideas off each other. Because [B] they are all in charge,[/B] workers are more motivated, he argues. Crisp regularly measures staff satisfaction, and the average is about 4.1 out of five. [/QUOTE]

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