#221 Participate! - with Roberto Martinez

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This week, I sit down with Roberto Martinez, co-founder of the software company Nearsoft.

As a follower of famous business radical Ricardo Semler, Roberto built a company culture based on:

• No formal hierarchy
• Meaning and belonging as foundations
• Transparency and decentralisation

The number one message from Roberto that I took away from our conversation is that if you want a vibrant, humane culture, you've got to find ways to have everyone participate. We talk:

We talk:

• Cooking for the team
• High participation *and* fast decisions
• Handling transparency in larger organisations
• Letting go of hierarchical mental models