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The Economics of Good Team Work – The Easy Way to Improve Business Profits for the Long Term
Author Jeremiah Josey I wrote this article for the Al Jarida newspaper and it was published on Saturday 21 February 2015. This article took a full page to discuss the economics of good team work for a business. It is published here: Al Jarida Article 21 Feb 2015 (Go to page 12) The Economics of Good Team…
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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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Social Engineering: Self-Organising, Collaborating Groups, or Sociocracy for short
Author Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 for the individuals involved? The solution: Develop a self…
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Ricardo Semler on Salaries
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 people, “Figure out where you…
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Ricardo Semler on Compensation
Post by Jeremiah Josey, MECi Group 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 for the…
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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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Productivity – How to Get the Most from Your Team: Have a Collaborative Work Culture
Do you operate a fear based work culture or a collaborative work culture? It’s easy to tell: just take a break, have a holiday. Come back to your work place and if it based on fear you will find work has slowed to a standstill. A collaborative work culture and you’ll wonder why came back – performance…
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