The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

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Summary: A management Nirvana with no HRM BS...
Review: Many would see what Ricardo Semler describes as a sort of nirvana but I've seen a similar model work in practice in a manufacturing company, two years into a WCM re-engineering initiative. It does and can work but does require management to think differently. As an management analyst/writer, what I found most fascinating, was Mr. Semlers views on the future of the human resource management role within organisations - it must disappear! I have always considered HRM to be a red herring in Modern management adding little or nothing to organisational success but being a major BY-PRODUCT of that same success. Does it lag or Lead? Lag, I believe. My first book 'In Search of Competence' touches on this, while my second is entirely based on HRM. Good book, some very interesting management ideas. (...)

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Summary: work and life balance
Review: Semler has downloaded from the brains of so many successful entrepeneurs the key to balancing life and work. People live and people work. People do not need to loathe work or be treated like idiots to operate in the work place. Treat people like adults and afford them adult decision oportunities and they will shine and make you money.

Corporate America has alot to learn and Semler is ready and eager to teach. Start down the road to learning who you are as a successful business person and person by reading "The Seven -Day Weekend." People in control of their lives will self-create, self-improve and self-manage.

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Summary: work and life balance
Review: Semler has downloaded from the brains of so many successful entrepeneurs the key to balancing life and work. People live and people work. People do not need to loathe work or be treated like idiots to operate in the work place. Treat people like adults and afford them adult decision oportunities and they will shine and make you money.

Corporate America has alot to learn and Semler is ready and eager to teach. Start down the road to learning who you are as a successful business person and person by reading "The Seven -Day Weekend." People in control of their lives will self-create, self-improve and self-manage.

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Summary: Eye-opening and thought provoking
Review: This book made me question how I run my business and what its future will be. Semler's writing style was very enjoyable and easy to read. (I finished the entire book in about 24 hours, a testament to both the content and the pace of the writing.) Even if one chose to not implement a single suggestion that Semler offers, I think that the book would still be worthwhile, if for nothing else to see how dramatically different a business can be run.