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Ricardo Semler

Get an innovative approach to management and increase productivity with Ricardo Semler's new thinking in the workplace.

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Om Ricardo Semler

Known worldwide for his innovative management style that focuses on employees, Ricardo Semler is a true visionary who advises companies on how to significantly improve their performance by restructuring their relationship with their staff. His presentations always stimulate creative and productive thinking about how to lead and manage. Semler is president of Semco S/A, based in Brazil, and author of two books: Maverick and The Seven-Day Weekend. Maverick has been published in 16 languages and sold over a million copies. The phenomenal success of the book shows a keen interest in workable alternatives to conventional management wisdom. Hundreds of executives from other companies have visited his company to study his success. He has been profiled in more than 200 magazines and newspapers, including a special issue of Time highlighting future world leaders. He was named one of the "Future Global Leaders" by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Ricardo Semler admits his own company's management deals aren't for everyone (managers set their salaries, staff choose their bosses), but it's a success. Semco is now a $400 million company with additional minority interests in companies that add up to $9 billion in market capitalization. Many innovative industries have been started in the last 5 years: ETH, BrasilAgro, Tarpon, Juritas and NGO. He encourages the audience to take a realistic look at what works, what is possible and what makes sense in today's world, with our technologies, the rapid pace of change and the increasing failure of current practices to adapt themselves. Technology that was meant to make life easier—laptops, cell phones, e-mails, dialers—has taken up much of our free time and destroyed the traditional nine-to-five workday. Why, for example, have we not learned to go golfing on Monday mornings when we have learned to take our work home on Friday evenings? For courageous innovators, Ricardo Semler suggests a way of running a workplace that leads to greater productivity and greater flexibility for both managers and employees. And for business leaders everywhere, he offers fresh alternatives to business as usual that inspire creative solutions to modern management problems.