Ricardo Semler, the Brazilian sometime CEO of Semco and author of the bestselling ‘Maverick’, is a very unique businessman indeed.
This blog post’s title is a quote from his second book, originally to be called “The End of The Weekend” – but which his American publisher then changed to “The Seven-Day Weekend”.
(That publisher no doubt well understands what it takes to market a business book in a crowded marketplace.)
The book is an account of how Semco is attempting to deal with an “always on” and increasingly busy and competitive world in which many employees and managers know they can no longer take (or in some cases, even want) every weekend off.
Interestingly, a seven-day weekend environment can result in some plus points too.
