Tag: business management
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Advice from Richard Branson: give your employees freedom
Insights from one of the world’s most successful men, 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…
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Managing without Managers – Ricardo Semler
How to give authority to everyone removes unnecessary layers of management I have found Semler’s work inspirational on many levels. I know that you will too. This was written by Ricardo Semler in the Sept-Oct 1989 Harvard Business Review. Over to you Ricardo… In Brazil, where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish, I…
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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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More on the New World Order
George Soros and his skill in finance 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…
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