Tag: business management
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Advice from Richard Branson: give your employees freedom
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group By Jack Preston of Virgin You won’t come across many people who have never had a boss. The thought of not having someone to answer to at work is a peculiar one for most people, however for Richard Branson it’s a natural state of affairs.”Having always worked for myself, I’ve never…
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Managing without Managers – Ricardo Semler
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 them –including factory workers – set their own working hours.…
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What is “business”
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 3 If you…
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More on the New World Order
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group I’ve been following George Soro‘s thoughts for a while and in the book I’m reading now, “The Ascent of Money”, Niall gives him a lot of air time. So when George presented a week long lecture series at the Central European University I just couldn’t resist. And in my usual…
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