As part of that “manage yourself” mandate, CGI doesn’t even track sick days, and its three-week “bench policy” requires an employee to find a new project in that time-frame or risk being fired. Most employees are identified as “consultants,” and are compensated through profit-sharing plans. All that traces back to Godin’s favorite saying: “Nobody ever washes a rental car” -- if you own it, you will take care of it. “Everyone is kind of self-employed,” says Gordon Divitt, a senior executive consultant at CGI in 2007 who was chief information officer at Interac, a Canadian ATM company for which CGI ran technological plumbing. “You’ve got to manage yourself, which is very unusual at a company this size.”

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