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Email and paperwork have invaded homes. Most people know how to work on Sunday evening. But no one yet knows how to go to the cinema on Monday afternoon. A new way to work is needed. Since "Maverick!" was published, the growth and success of Semco have been explosive: it's now five times bigger than it was four years ago. It has embraced the internet world, expanded in services, and employs 2,300 people, compared to 350 when "Maverick!" was written. A new way of working has emerged at Semco of which the tell-tale signs are: hammocks where people rest during the day, Retire-a-Little Plans, the end of the head office, the abolition of control and boarding school mentality. The results: inordinate success for 20 years, practically non-existent staff turnover, and an organization that covers an enormous range of business activity, from machinery to environmental consulting, and from real estate advisory services to new business start-ups, smoothly and coherently. It's time for a new way to work to be created, and Semco is leading the way. "The Seven Day Weekend" tells the fascinating and unlikely story of how this can be achieved.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0099425238
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2004
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ New Ed
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780099425236
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099425236
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.83 x 7.8 inches
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"Outstanding, new paradigm, management no longer will be the same. Life learning, simple and powerful experiences from the top but not from a top..." Read more

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Ricardo has done it again! I thought it wouldn’t be at the same level as Maverick and I gotta admit I was wrong. The author shows time and time again through many examples that democracy is the way to go in any organization(NGOs, company or your local pharmacy). The democratic way of ruling a corporation(Semco as the book’s example) gives voice to many different involved parties who otherwise just wouldn't get noticed even if they held the right answer. I believe that most companies wouldn’t want to go down this way because it would mean relinquishing abnormal amounts of power that managers and executives hold, and as they make all the calls, why would they want to change the system? I used to work at an H&M store a few years ago, now I see that I’m not crazy for thinking that it’s nonsense to ask for permission before doing anything, even going to the bathroom.
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  • MIGUEL TIQUE BARBOSA DA SILVA
    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, new paradigm!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018
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    Outstanding, new paradigm, management no longer will be the same. Life learning, simple and powerful experiences from the top but not from a top down approach. Can understand now better corporate life, what is natural and what is not. Love it!
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  • rkiperman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Thinking outside the box
    Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2012
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    Actually the headline should be: how can you think outside the box when there's not even a box?!
    This is what Ricardo Semler brilliantly brings us with his mind-blowing story at Semco.
    No wonder he has been subject to so many Masters and PhD researchers.
    A safe buy, a different approach and a personal challenge, since you cannot go through the book without thinking: "Oh Gosh, what now? How do I translate this to work come Monday?"

    Enjoy!
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  • Burge
    5.0 out of 5 stars All managers should read this
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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    I thought I was pushing the envelope until I read this, but Ricardo both shows what you should do, how you could do it, and what happens at the end.

    If more company owners were like him, more people would enjoy their lives rather than hating their alarm clocks for reminding the day has begun.
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  • Brian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Opens the mind
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017
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    This is a great book to read to turn everything you may have learned about management on its head. You might not fully change your mind about loosening control and implementing traditional techniques, but at the least you will start to question why you do things the way that you do them and if you are really getting the best results
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  • David Chu
    5.0 out of 5 stars Secret to understanding The Seven Day Weekend
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2008
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    A lot people who read this book are baffled as to what exactly Semco and Ricardo Semler are doing that is so revolutionary. My simple answer is this:

    They are treating their employees as "adults" and guess what? They are discovering that their employees behave as adults! Wow!

    What's hard to understand for most people who are treated at their work as "children" (boss, may I do this, may I do that, etc., etc.), is that they actually behave as "adult-children"? All the resultant effects of the current and dying corporate system are totally predictable: low esteem, no initiative, fear, office politics, mismatch of talents and goals, etc., etc.

    This is the revolutionary premise behind the success of what the 21st century "company" will look like.
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  • curtismchale
    3.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring but not a guidebook
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017
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    An inspiring read all about giving your employees more trust. They are adults so treat them like adults. Stop monitoring them all the time. Focus on the results they provide for the business and that's it.

    You'll leave this book with many great ideas to try in your business, but it's not a guidebook on how to implement them all next week. You'll have to do some trial and error to get that.
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  • Mike
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2013
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    Semler's perspective is impressive. He's taken knowledge from all areas of decentralized structures and built a functioning business. This book combined with The Starfish and the Spider gives a very unique insightful approach to where society is heading [back to].
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  • CBRACK211
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Inspired Revolution!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2015
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    Stop what you are doing. Pull the car out of traffic gridlock. Hit the park, hang a hammock, and just absorb these words. A titanic shift in organizational leadership lies within. Keep your stick and your carrot and give me back my life! As a leader of one of the fastest growing companies on earth (starts with a big A) I am ready to start the healing. Do I truly trust my people? Have I given them the chance to prove their potential? If they believe in the customer experience then why do they run for the door when the clock strikes 6pm? Because I have failed to ask why. I am giving up control and trusting that we can do better. The revolution for me starts now!
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  • Paul Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars in perfect condition.
    Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2017
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    Superb, thought provoking, a real life example of how capitalism should be. Semler was from the beginning, over 20 years ago (read his 1st book "Maverick") a new age, highly successful and moral business leader. His story should be required reading for ALL business leaders and college/university business school programs.
    The book arrived on time, in perfect condition.......and it was a very good price.
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  • Tatakai Tony
    5.0 out of 5 stars Why follow the herd!!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2012
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    I bought this after stumbling across a review when i was looking for information on a new job role i had. I have spent 15 years in retail management and now 10 in insurance as a manager and now a director. I am still hamstrung by more senior directors but where i can i follow the principles of this remarkable book that effectively throws all we know about managing people out of the window and rewrites how to manage and run not only profitable business but a motivated one and changes the basic foundations of lots of people working `AT' XXXX company to lots of people working 'FOR' their company and that is a massive difference.
    I love it, love it, it is a slow start but then builds momentum, the changes start from the employees one aspect of it is recruiting their managers, sounds odd but if the incentive is to achieve a tough but achievable target on project X and you will all benefit by getting Y then people will want a manager that can help them achieve it.
    I won't spoil it all but if you have not been turned into an automated drone manager and have a mind of your own then this is worth a good read, the `thou must wear a 3 pce suit and must work 9 -5' will hate it (I gave this to my MD and he `lost' it when he was away on business!!!).
    The sooner managers/ Directors/ Owners realise that once you have motivated, happy and energised employee's the quicker and easier everything becomes.
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  • Sreedevi Jagannath
    4.0 out of 5 stars Bold and Beautiful!
    Reviewed in India on April 4, 2015
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    Breaking down the structure of an organisation that we all consider as "crucial" without know why. Ricardo talks about diversifying businesses, without necessarily introducing all the complexities that would follow within a "standard" organisation. Emphasis is on the workforce rather than infrastructure, which is something that most companies lose sight of as they grow in size.

    Still reading, and like it so far!
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  • Alice&Hugues
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth reading
    Reviewed in France on December 16, 2017
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    What Ricardo Semler has done with Semco really looks like science-fiction. It seems he has challenged every basic principles a lot of people take for granted to run a business, and one cannot stop wondering how this actually worked out well.
    For those who have read a bit about Collective Intelligence (e.g. "Booster l'intelligence collective"), Semco is the real-life (and successful!) laboratory for this paradigm, using self-management instead of carrot-and-stick.
    The basis: if you share a common goal, if you trust that people are intelligent adult human beings able to define what is best for themselves and for the company, if everything is transparent enough to enable decision-making (including detailed accounting and salaries), if you are able to relinquish control, then you don't need all those activities that don't really add value, the company will be agile and efficient, and employees will be happy.
    Just a few examples. Let people choose their working hours, choose their working location, decide their own personal-professional balance. Let them free to attend (or not) any meeting. Let any of them meet candidates in a tribal-like selection process, and vote for the preferred one. Let them decide their own salaries. Let them decide if it's better to close their own factory and lose their job now or hang on and put their compensation at risk. No procedures, no rules, no written values, no written strategy, no planning further than 6 months ahead, and not even a statement defining what the company actually does.
    Really difficult to apply as such, I still don't understand how one can make this work to such extent. That was probably possible because Semco is not a publicly held company with short-term quartely results to guarantee (a principle he despises).
    But this book is definitely excellent food for thought about trusting the people, embracing diversity (join rule-makers with rule-breakers), respecting dissent, enhancing people's creativity and initiative.
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  • Philippa Ireton
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas worth adopting
    Reviewed in Spain on June 15, 2017
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    Most company hierarchy could do with reading this. If you take a few small ideas away from this you will be running a better organisation. Allowing people some say in how they do their job is so refreshing, and sadly lacking in many organisations. Making people stay at work for set hours, even if they gave nothing to do is a ridiculous waste of time. Semler gives autonomy to his employees and it works. Well worth reading
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