The Seven-Day Weekend (Review and Analysis of Semler's Book)
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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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Reviews for The Seven-Day Weekend (Review and Analysis of Semler's Book)
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had so much fun reviewing key concepts in the book. I would agree that people should be allowed to self-determine their work and compensation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have a physical copy, but have never gotten around to reading it. I really like the summary because it was packed with value. Watch some of Semler's youtube video mixed with reading the book helped me get a good grasp in 1-2 hours of how he's thinking and understand the power/inspiration of the new ideas he's bringing into the workplace. I'm excited to experiment with his concepts in my business and see what is possible!
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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 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