Jaipur Rugs: Self-Managed Art That You Can Walk On
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Excerpted from “The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work,” ForbesBooks, 2019 “We Don’t Sell Carpets; We Sell a Family’s Blessing” Nand Kishore Chaudhary, known to his close colleagues as NKC, is a man on a mission. The humble founder of Jaipur Rugs, now employing 40,000 weavers making hand-knotted decorative rugs for sale in forty countries, is theorizing how to elevate the collaborative and decision-making powers of the workforce using the power of organizational self-management. He, and his company, have come a long way since starting up in 1978 on 5,000 rupees borrowed from his father after walking away from a stable banker’s job to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams.
Jaipur Rugs: Self-Managed Art That You Can Walk On
Jaipur Rugs: Self-Managed Art That You Can…
Jaipur Rugs: Self-Managed Art That You Can Walk On
Excerpted from “The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work,” ForbesBooks, 2019 “We Don’t Sell Carpets; We Sell a Family’s Blessing” Nand Kishore Chaudhary, known to his close colleagues as NKC, is a man on a mission. The humble founder of Jaipur Rugs, now employing 40,000 weavers making hand-knotted decorative rugs for sale in forty countries, is theorizing how to elevate the collaborative and decision-making powers of the workforce using the power of organizational self-management. He, and his company, have come a long way since starting up in 1978 on 5,000 rupees borrowed from his father after walking away from a stable banker’s job to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams.