Author: Jeremiah Josey
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Piracy? Or Different Rules of the Game
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 someone else, something that is already owned.…
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It’s all in how we learn…
Author Jeremiah Josey MECi Group 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 it. Watch a vine climbing…
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Lessons Everywhere – the comparative value of knowledge
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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. He waved me down on the road, 1…
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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…
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The Science of Getting Rich – Wallace D Wattles
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 in his thought, and, by…
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Ricardo Semler on Salaries
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 element of self-determination. Once or twice a year, we order salary market survey’s and pass them out. We say to people, “Figure out where you…
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Ricardo Semler on Compensation
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 the morning. If you paid people by the hour, you could stop the looms, send everyone home, and pay only for the…
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Managing without Managers – Ricardo Semler
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group Managing without Managers by Ricardo Semler, Harvard Business Review (Sep-Oct 1989) In Brazil, where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish, I am president of a manufacturing company that treats its 800 employees like responsible adults. Most of them –including factory workers – set their own working hours.…
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Read The Manual
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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, Hugh Morgan and Andrew Michelmore. The facility…
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Flying Solo or Craftsman, or Businessman??
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 in “business” operate in a…
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Burqa Woman
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I’m sitting at Arrivals with my regulation Starbucks semi- daily black brew. No sugar. Grande. I’m waiting. All nationalities are arriving. It’s busy. I’m observing. Looking. Staring. A couple emerge. Business or married I can’t tell. Either way it’s not nice. Man and woman. Perhaps Swiss or German from their…
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How to Get and Assess Feedback from Your Team
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group In a democratic workplace, one of the most important requirements is transparency on performance. In particular transparency on the performance of managers, business line leaders and other people where they supervise, support, look over other people. If you are suppressing your people, there is no way they can perform at…
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Learning to walk again
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I’ve read the works of Robert Kiyosaki lately, two of his latest best sellers “Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money” and “Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money“. Both books stimulated and reminded me of my study and applying that…
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No need to be afraid of a tax on carbon
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/no-need-to-be-afraid-of-a-tax-on-carbon-20100903-14tqh.html Love it! Before the Australian election climate change was relegated to a distant nowhere in the election work up of each major party. Now it’s topic to swing a government of some 20 odd million people. Here’s a speech by someone who has a very REAL concern for climate…
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How to Actively Create a Life
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 1. Write it down 2. Focus on it Visualize it as if it already exists, as if it already has happened. Use what ever tricks are needed. Create a scrap book, a slide show presentation, affirmations, anything to have the image in your mind, in your thoughts, and into your subconscious.…
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How to get a 1 hour suntan in 5 minutes
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I was sitting by the pool today (as I often do), thinking about stuff (as I often do)… I was thinking about a movie called Sunshine released in 2007. An excellent Si-Fi movie set 50 years into the future when the sun is dying. (Worth a watch by the way.…
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The Dark Side of Green
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I posted a comment here about the real costs of burning hydrocarbons. It was in response to discussion on subsidies on green energy technologies, global warming and everything in between. http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=62696&type=member&item=25411493&commentID=20660457&goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1&report.success=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_20660457 @Brian and @Brennan love the way you think. Clear, clean, concise. Brennan you’d never hit below the belt in…
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The Mediocrity of Australian Politics
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group Recent public movements in Australian politics reveal the truth behind the talking: National interest, getting things done, change for the good of everyone? These are not on the agenda. Personal interest, personal gain and tepid caution: these are what drives the upcoming Australian election. As pointed out by Leigh Ewbank in…
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If it were easy
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Just pretend you don’t know how hard it is. Hold your ideas up to the light. Make a date to do something you’re scared of doing. Admire wildflowers. Sit under the stars or on the edge of the ocean. Spend time…
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The Abraham-Hicks Processes and the Emotional Set Point Ranges to apply them Over
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group The Processes (in brackets is the Emotional Set Point range to apply the process to) 1. Rampage of Appreciation (1-5) 2. Magical Creation Box (1-5) 3. The Creation Workshop (1-5) 4. Virtual Reality (1-8) 5. The Prosperity Game (1-16) 6. Process of Meditation (1-22) 7. Evaluating Dreams (1-22) 8.…
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