by Jeremiah | Oct 4, 2011 | Creation, Money
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...
by Jeremiah | Aug 27, 2011 | Best Business Practices
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...
by Jeremiah | Aug 26, 2011 | Best Business Practices
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...
by Jeremiah | Aug 25, 2011 | Best Business Practices
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...
by Jeremiah | Mar 20, 2011 | Best Business Practices, Investment, Technology
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...
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