Ep143: Leveraging human potential, and making work awesome, with Ian Borges, Co-Founder, Semco Style Institute - a podcast by Andrew Barrett | Growing leaders | Drastically improving health & safety

What if we spent more time improving work, would health and safety also improve as a result? What if we did that using many of the principles built into safety thinking, but not calling it safety? What if people have been doing exactly that for almost half a decade, with great results? They have, and that's what we're chatting about today. 

My guest today is Ian Borges.  Ian is one of the founders and senior leaders at the Semco Style Institute, a collaboration inspired by the almost half a century of revolutionary leadership of Brazilian businessman Ricardo Semler.  Semler's approach to leadership is probably best described as a self-management philosophy, but this kind of approach is often described as democratic leadership, holocracy, or industrial democracy.