The Seven-Day Weekend
Subtitle: Changing the Way Work Works
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover; Portfolio
Published: April 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781591840268
Subjects: Business & Management; Structure Of Industrial Organizations; Management; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Structural Adjustment; Business/Economics; Semco (Firm); Management - General; Business & Economics / Accounting / General; Employee empowerment; Employee participation; Industrial management; Organizational change
Description: "Ricardo Semler's favorite question is "Why?" Why do people routinely bring work home on the weekends but never go to the movies on a Monday afternoon? Why do we need to sit at the same desk every day? Why do we have to fill out time sheets or need an HR department to file them? Why are we interviewed by our bosses but never get to interview someone who wants to be our boss?" "For the last twenty years Semler has been doing a lot more than asking questions - he's actually been running a company by breaking every tenet in the traditional rule book. Semler encourages his employees to play hooky. He tells them not to bother with growth plans. Employees choose their own salaries, set their own hours and have no job titles." "Reflecting Ricardo Semler's passion, wry sense of humor, and hardheaded business acumen, The Seven-Day Weekend challenges all of our assumptions about how a successful business should be run."--BOOK JACKET.