Category: Best Business Practices
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Working smarter and not harder
When I was 13 years old, I was living with my family on a farm in far western NSW. This was “Outback Australia”. A new local TV tower had been installed about 5 km away and so we could now watch Australia’s equivalent to the BBC without watching it through a blue plastic screen that…
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Avoid Working with an A-H!
This is a great blog I came across recently by Guy Kiyosaki. I’ve posted a little bit of it below. You can find the entire post here: …Mean-spirited morons are still running much of the workplace, and it’s time to take a stand. Most nastiness is directed by superiors to subordinates; so before taking a…
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Chicken Soup?
90% Chickens pair up for the mating season, i.e. choosing only one sexual partner. 50% of them split after the mating season (and go on to form other relationships the following season). The other 50% remain with the same sexual partner for successive seasons. Humans have similar figures: 90% of people choose to have one…
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The Electronic Communication and Consciousness Conundrum
When an email is sent or a blog is created, it is the written word that is transmitted – nothing more, nothing less. Many studies have shown that the written word – words – only transmit 10%, at most, of the intended meaning of the communication. My fellow Australian Allan Pease – specifically “body language”…
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Semco Summary
From Maverick, 1993, by Ricardo Semler. Semco is more than novel programs or procedures. What is important is our open-mindedness, our trust in our employees and distrust of dogma. We are neither socialist nor purely capitalist, but we take the best of these failed systems and others to reorganise work so that collective thinking does…
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The What and Why Applied to Business – Implicity Semco Style
I posted that last story because it always reminds me to ask the “why” about everything. I find that asking “Why” often enough will eventually reveal the “What” of the “Why”. The reason for doing something then becomes very clear. If there is no “What”, then most likely what ever is being discussed does not…
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A Story About a Habit
A newly married couple were in the kitchen one Sunday. The wife was preparing a piece of lamb for roasting and the husband was preparing the vegetables. The husband observed as the wife placed the piece of lamb onto the chopping block and promptly chopped 4 inches from each end, discarded the pieces into the…
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Keeping the Rotten Tomatoes at Bay
We just returned home from shopping and we’re busy unpacking everything into the fridge and cupboards. I picked up a punnet of cherry tomatoes and pondered whether to take them out or leave them as they were and just put them into the fridge. We’ll that got me thinking about how much effort we go…
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