Book Review - 7 Day Weekend

Recently i have finished this book. Seams to be written
the 'ideal case studies', i.e. if we sit in Semco's
cafeteria, we can find some critics too i mean Semco
may not be as ideal as written. But its worth.

Few points which i like,
1. Importance of collective gut feel of all the people
involved in any project(CEO to office boy).
2. Lot more Stress on Integrity and ethics.
3. Peer pressure make people working, rather then
military control( managers are driving ).
4. Environment is being created and maintained by
appropriate recruitment and mentoring process.
5. Lots of stress on Atomic growth i.e. Natural
growth.
[ framework is being evolved itself by some basic
rules Ricardo call it as 'Survival Manual', one good
thing is not a single person is a HERO, its all about
the team ]
6. Work environment, is also important, people are
happy to come at work, they love their work.
7. Success is not only money, it is customer
satisfaction, money and employee satisfaction.
8. Mutual trust, the most important thing is trust
between employee and employer.
9. Stress on self management.

Thats what i remember for now.

Ricado has one good point of view, 'anthropological'
and his tendency to look at 'Tribes' ( mostly to
understand naturally self sustainable, self managed system)

One more good point is defining a personality.
IQ+EQ+SQ-EGO ; Mostly we do the same subconsciously, A wonderful description.
(I- Intellect, E- Emotional, S- Spiritual)

This was all about the book says, my understanding in a nut shell is, an organizational growth is sustainable only iff they have some common denominator ( Ricardo says as Survival Manual ) like integrity, ethics, honesty, in other words 'Organization's Culture and Values'. There is lot more stress on Organizational Health these days, i strongly believe that a common denominator solve this purpose, no one has to perform any action to improve and sustain 'Organization's Health'.

Semco is growing @40% per anum, with almost no iteration, business has grown in many dimension.
A Live example of true democratic environment. Individuality, Independence , Respect is sustained irrespective of designation.