The Tim Ferriss Show

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

#229: Ricardo Semler -- The Seven-Day Weekend and How to Break the Rules

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Published March 19, 2017 7:29am

Ricardo Semler (@ricardosemler) is the former CEO of Semco Partners, a Brazilian company best known perhaps for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. During his leadership, Semco grew from four million in 1982 to two hundred and twelve million in 2003. His innovative -- but very controversial -- business management policies have attracted widespread interest from all over the world. He is the best-selling author of Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace and The Seven-Day Weekend: A Better Way to Work in the 21st Century (not to be confused with another book titled in...

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