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The must-read summary of Ricardo Semler's book: “The Seven-Day Weekend: Finding The Work/Life Balance”.
This complete summary of the ideas from “The Seven-Day Weekend” exposes the origins of ingrained habits in the business world and explains how changing them might be for the better. This useful summary provides you with the tools necessary to identify said habits in your company and to implement changes that will benefit both your business and the people involved, following in the example of the incredibly successful company Semco S.A. Striking the right balance between personal and professional life is now possible.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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Book Presentation: The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler
Book Abstract
About the Author
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of The Seven-Day Weekend (Ricardo Semler)
1. The end of the traditional weekend
2. Success and money are distant relatives
3. Management by omission
4. A long line of pied pipers
5. Rambling into the future
Book Presentation: The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
The “seven-day weekend” is a metaphor for the fact it’s now time to do things differently and better in the business world.
Most of the practices which people so blindly accept as part and parcel of the business environment (like a dress code, set work hours and unquestioned adherence to what the boss says rather than what your instincts tell you is right) are not as absolutely essential as they may seem. In fact, most of these common practices have taken root as offshoots of a boarding school mentality or as the result of the business world adopting the military model as the best way to organize itself.
When you stop and ask some pointed questions, however, it soon becomes clear there must be a better way to get things done while harnessing the collective brainpower and intelligence of everyone involved. For example:
Why can’t the workplace be reorganized to make work fun?Why can’t there be a better mix between what people do on weekends (their passions) and what they do at work?Why do we value intuition highly and yet find no place for it as an official business tool?Why do we assume that the future is in the laps of the gods and yet we try and preplan or project every moment of it?Why do we think we are equipped to manage our own lives but can’t be trusted to lead ourselves at work?Why do we tell our employees we trust them – and then turn around and search them as they go home or audit them rigorously?Why should people have to stick to a career choice they made as an unprepared and inexperienced adolescent?Why doesn’t money buy success – if almost everyone measures their success in cash terms?Why is it that billionaires accumulate money only to donate it later to ethereal concepts like world peace?Why can’t we take the kids to work if it’s perfectly acceptable to take some of our work home?Why does everyone think the opposite of work is leisure when it is actually idleness?Why do business people have a flock mentality – and regularly follow rams that turn out to be nothing more than wolves?Some companies are starting to develop their own unique answers to these and other questions. One such company is Semco S.A., a Brazilian company which has been led by Ricardo Semler for the past twenty years. By setting up one of the world’s foremost democratic companies, Semler transformed Semco from a small family business into a highly profitable manufacturing, services and high-tech powerhouse – 40 times its original size. Uniquely, Semler achieved this not by attempting to be a dynamic corporate leader but by finding the right balance between work and personal life, not only for himself but also for his 3,000 employees. In fact, Semco functions best when Semler is away watching his favorite movies or relaxing with his son in the middle of the business day. Semco employees create their own jobs and generate the company’s new projects and businesses without requiring the approval of the CEO or any other senior business leader.
About the Author
RICARDO SEMLER is CEO of Brazil’s Semco S.A., a 50-year old company with annual revenues exceeding $160 million. He is one of the world’s most respected champions of organizational change. Mr. Semler is also the author of the business best-seller Maverick! which tells the story of Semco’s transition from paternalistic, command-oriented management to a highly democratic, participative management structure.
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of The Seven-Day Weekend (Ricardo Semler)
1. The end of the traditional weekend
