Tag: business
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Why I Left Social Media – A Call for Real Connections
Is social media draining you. Perhaps your reason is the same as mine.
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Do You Find Business Hard or Easy?
For business minded people success starts with starting I’ll say something about what I observe about business. People starting out for the first time with little business history of their own or in their family believe they have to do it themselves. That they can’t trust anyone. And they are frequently trying to prove something…
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Social Engineering: Self-Organising, Collaborating Groups, or Sociocracy for short
When you really want your project, family and community to hum, and not screach. How do you improve human group dynamics, and allow people be more productive, business to be more profitable, groups to be more self reliant, whilst at the same time have it be more satisfying, more rewarding and straight out more enjoyable…
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Lessons Everywhere – the comparative value of knowledge
Saving a life in Kuwait by simply changing a tyre 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…
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Flying Solo or Craftsman, or Businessman??
Do you define your job or does your job define you? 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…
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What is “business”
A brief 1-2-3 “how-to” for going into business Once you have decided that you want to do business and you have what you think is a customer, then a business is 4 steps: 1) Find out what they want2) Go and get it3) Give it to them4) Make a profit from doing 1, 2 and…
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The New World Order
How financial literacy is not important anymore? Catchy title? It’s sure to attract attention. I’m just about finished a great book called the “Assent of Money” by Niall Ferguson. An excellent read if you want to understand how the financial system works – including your credit card, your home mortgage and your pension – if you have…
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