Category: Best Business Practices
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Working smarter and not harder
How time off to observe is far more rewarding that “all hands on deck” 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…
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Avoid Working with an A-H!
Are you working with a mean-spirited moron? Leave! 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…
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Chicken Soup?
Why humans and chickens aren’t much different from each other 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…
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The Electronic Communication and Consciousness Conundrum
There’s more to language than words – it’s the whole human body! 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…
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Semco Summary
A brief wrap up by Ricardo Semler from 1993 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…
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The What and Why Applied to Business – Implicitly Semco Style
Adapt or perish! How you can live stress free in your own business 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…
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A Story About a Habit
When you do something without thinking “why”, strange things can happen 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…
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Keeping the Rotten Tomatoes at Bay
Cucumbers, tomatoes and people – not so different really Just returned home from shopping and 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…
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