Irineu Evangelista de Souza possessed entrepreneurial skills and a very liberal British management style. He always dared to use cutting-edge technology, and he maintained a remuneration policy based on talen t, giving great importance to recognizing it. With his flexible, decentralized administrative model, the Baron of Maua operated eight of the ten biggest companies in Brazil.
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