Ricardo Semler

Author, Executive

Ricardo Semler is a Brazilian businessman and majority owner of Semco Partners. Handed control of the family company in 1980 at 21, he rebuilt it around industrial democracy, as described in Maverick (1993) and The Seven-Day Weekend.

Ricardo Semler's 5 Book Recommendations

• The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
• The Oxford Shakespeare
• Parables and Paradoxes
• The Little Prince
• The Travels of Marco Polo

Books written by Ricardo Semler

• Maverick!
• The Seven-Day Weekend