by Jeremiah | Jun 23, 2012 | Best Business Practices, Global Issues Affecting all of Us
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...
by Jeremiah | May 14, 2012 | Best Business Practices, Consciousness, Creation, Meditation
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...
by Jeremiah | May 10, 2012 | Best Business Practices, Consciousness
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 hour from the border...
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...
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