Author: Jeremiah Josey
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Advice from Richard Branson: give your employees freedom
Insights from one of the world’s most successful men, by Jack Preston of Virgin You won’t come across many people who have never had a boss. The thought of not having someone to answer to at work is a peculiar one for most people, however for Richard Branson it’s a natural state of affairs.”Having always worked…
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The Climb Takes Effort
Your can’t achieve your objectives by standing still. You must at least answer the phone! Focus, concentration, endeavour, planning. All of these things are needed to reach any height, obtain any position different to where you are currently. Realise that anyone who has anything in this life has obtained it through some effort of some…
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Brilliant, and Ancient Technology
These walls in Peru are earthquake proof and modern tool proof. How was it done? This is the famous 12 sided stone in Hatum Rumiyoc Street, Cusco, Peru. It is 1,000’s of years old, carved with a technology long forgotten by man, and is in fact lost to modern science. We do not know how it…
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Who Decides Right and Wrong
Is it the past or future “You”? As you experience more in life you realise that what used to be right for you becomes wrong and visa-versa. Doesn’t that make you think about those definitions in the first place? About the Author Jeremiah Josey is Chairman of MECi Group and a systems architect specialising in energy…
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The End of Humanity? It’s all in the numbers
Fundamentally women must give birth. There is no other way For the human population to remain steady, each woman needs to have at least two children – one to replace herself and one to replace her mate. The actual number works out to be about 2.1 – to allow for accidents and the like. In…
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Thoughts – Matter
Osho put a lot of thought into these matters and so should you! Because of how reality works, and because of how our mind works with reality – a synthesizer of reality, of matter – what you put your attention on, what you thoughts comprise of, really, really matters. It really does. Remember it’s like…
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When you are ready, what you want arrives
The old saying “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”, has never been wiser Everything arrives when you are ready for it. You will feel it arrive because you are aligned to it’s arrival, and to its having by you. That means too, that you also can feel when you are not ready for…
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Doing the Stuff that Matters – Box Number One!
How Steve Covey elegantly organises my day I remember a few years ago some very resonating training I received from Steve Covey (via a book, CD, DVD or something like that). It’s all about prioritising your work and revolves around two key concepts: Urgency and Importance. Importance means alignment to your strategy, your goals, your…
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Social Engineering: Self-Organising, Collaborating Groups, or Sociocracy for short
When you really want your project, family and community to hum, and not screech How do you improve human group dynamics, and allow people be more productive, business to be more profitable, groups to be more self reliant, whilst at the same time have it be more satisfying, more rewarding and straight out more enjoyable…
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Wireless Power
Direct distributed electrical power was discovered a long long time ago Recent studies into the prehistoric structures in Egypt and Central and Southern Americas reveal vast spread of knowledge far beyond our own: ancient power stations and wireless power. Tesla in the 1890’s may have rediscovered what was known – and in common use –…
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Piracy? Or Different Rules of the Game
How sharing ideas expands society and how keeping them secret shrinks it This was a good read about so-called “piracy” in China (link here). What people do not understand is that this is not pirating. This has been labelled such by business lobbyists, out to protect their future revenue streams. Being a “Pirate” is taking something from…
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It’s all in how we learn…
Only by learning what “not to do”, can you do The best learning is in the field; “on the job”, “through the school of hard knocks”. Getting getting lots and lots of “Nos” is how you work out what is right. The more Nos, the more you learn. This is how nature learns. Go watch…
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Lessons Everywhere – the comparative value of knowledge
How I was saving a life in Kuwait by simply changing a tyre I changed a tyre today. It wasn’t my tyre. It belonged to an Egyptian vet, well he said he was egyptian and the back of his car was full of needles and drugs for camels so I assumed that was his occupation.…
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Make Up Your Mind by Harry Palmer
The following is a transcript of a talk given by Harry Palmer to the International Avatar Course in June of 2007 Look at you all. It feels like the holo-deck of the Starship Enterprise. This is exactly The Avatar Course I would create. In Living Deliberately, I briefly outlined the content of four types of belief…
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The Science of Getting Rich – Wallace D Wattles
About how to create your own reality, written 100 years ago There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things…
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Ricardo Semler on Salaries
Lessons on how to set boundaries with paying employees I found this summary concise and appropriate. The kind of conversation that can be held with a clear and level playing field. We set salaries like this: A lot of our people belong to unions, and they negotiate their salaries collectively. Everyone else’s salary involves an…
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Ricardo Semler on Compensation
How Semler eliminated Fredrick Winslow Talyor Through many years of practice and looking back on history, Semler and his colleagues devised the most natural way to work together. Employers began hiring workers by the hour during the Industrial Revolution. Their reasons were simple and rapacious. Say you ran out of cotton thread at 11:30 in…
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Managing without Managers – Ricardo Semler
How giving authority to everyone removes unnecessary layers of management I have found Semler’s work inspirational on many levels. I know that you will too. This was written by Ricardo Semler in the Sept-Oct 1989 Harvard Business Review. Over to you Ricardo… In Brazil, where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish, I am…
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Read The Manual
How decades of toil were spoilt by simply not reading the plan A handful of years ago I was asked to join Western Mining and build a major part of their new AUD 1 billion fertiliser facility in far north western Queensland. Western Mining was then led by two icons of the Australian mining industry,…
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Flying Solo or Craftsman, or Businessman??
Do you define your job or does your job define you? This is a great discussion between Robert Gerrish or FlyingSolo and Michael Gerber, of E-Myth fame. Michael Gerber Interview by Robert Gerrish I made some comments to the interview: Business is a system. People working in the system have a “job”. Many solo runners…
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