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This paper aims to identify how mind-power ability and its underlying elements, acting as drivers, impact managerial, and individual performance levels among achieving entrepreneurs in South Africa.

The study adopted a qualitative approach and included 15 male entrepreneurs who were purposively selected based on the study’s requirements. The primary data was collected through semi-structured one-on-one interviews, and interpretative phenomenological analysis served as the primary method of data analysis.

Findings from this study suggest that mind-power ability as an accustomed performance factor does indeed exist – and consists of a unique group of accustomed underlying elements – that significantly affects and contributes to both the managerial and individual performance levels of achieving entrepreneurs in South Africa.

The strategic implementation of mind-power ability as a performance enhancer serves as a valuable aspect in the arsenal of achieving entrepreneurs. However, this study was limited to the opinion of a small sample of participants in a specific field. Also, the phenomenological nature of this study requires the researcher’s interpretation of results to be viewed as the truth.

The study provides a new perspective and validates how the strategic implementation of mind-power techniques can boost entrepreneurial performance all-round. The study also proves new insights into the relationship between mind-power ability and cognitive and motivational processes, and further contributes beyond existing theory.

The study is novel and provides new insight into the strategic implementation and powerful effects of mind-power ability in entrepreneurship.

In Part One of ?From the Genius of the Man to the Man of Genius’ I argued that classical and medieval inscriptions of genius figures suggest a coevalence between characters in their respective cosmologies, making it relatively more difficult to delineate Man from “spirits” and “other organisms”. The labour that genii performed flowed around two significant tropes of production and reproduction whose specificities were inflected in and across sources. In medieval poetry, for instance, genius figures took up a new role in regard to the reproduction trope, as promoter of virtue (in the form of censuring the seven deadly sins) and condemner of vice (in the form of prohibition against same sex intercourse). The sedimentation (complex processes of character‐formation), directionality (patterns of descent) and sexual ecology (emergence of a field of ethics) that the medieval literature embodies also indexes an opening disarticulation of Man from universe and the possibility of grounding “morality” in and as His love choices. Through a series of narrative structures, binary concepts and new sources of authority under Christianity the figure now referred to in philosophy as “the subject” is given early grounds upon which to form in the medieval poems.

To determine where, when, how, and wherefore European social theory hit upon the formula of “the True, the Good, and the Beautiful,” and how its structural position as a skeleton for the theory of action has changed.

Genealogy, library research, and unusually good fortune were used to trace back the origin of what was to become a ubiquitous phrase, and to reconstruct the debates that made deploying the term seem important to writers.

The triad, although sometimes used accidentally in the renaissance, assumed a key structural place with a rise of Neo-Platonism in the eighteenth century associated with a new interest in providing a serious analysis of taste. It was a focus on taste that allowed the Beautiful to assume a position that was structurally homologous to those of the True and the Good, long understood as potential parallels. Although the first efforts were ones that attempted to emphasize the unification of the human spirit, the triad, once formulated, was attractive to faculties theorists more interested in decomposing the soul. They seized upon the triad as corresponding to an emerging sense of a tripartition of the soul. Finally, the members of the triad became re-understood as values, now as orthogonal dimensions.

This seems to be the first time the story of the development of the triad – one of the most ubiquitous architectonics in social thought – has been told.

Orthodox management science has underestimated the power of creative thinking and the use of mental imaging techniques in goal achievement. In the world of sport a range of techniques involving creative visualisation have long been used by top achievers, but have only more recently been understood in terms of the working of the right brain hemisphere, and an inbuilt “cybernetic” facility for achieving clearly envisioned goals. Such an understanding has added significantly to dated “positive thinking” concepts in changing self‐image along with shorter term mental approach, and is more readily practically applicable then “lateral thinking”. Results claimed are not marginal; dramatic performance improvements are cited in various fields of endeavour, including selling, interviews, and career enhancement. The impact of the embryonic science of psycho‐cybernetics into the next century can only be postulated, but from increasing evidence the inbuilt, vestigial, untapped managerial resource of creative visualisation awaits exploitation. Only the familiar but blinkered logic of the left brain will limit the horizon of achievement for tomorrow′s managers.

What does the future have in store for our organization and for us? Will it be good, bad, indifferent? Will we plan effectively, make the right managerial decisions and live happily ever after? Or will we be undercut or wiped out by the twin monsters “tion” and “sion”—competition, regulation, inflation, recession, pollution, or atomic explosion?

The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into the thinking of the 1960s and at a time when subsequent advances and developments could not easily have been predicated with any degree of certainty. Provides an analysis and summary of “new concepts” of cybernetics and discusses their implications.

By presenting the essentials of this prize‐winning essay, considerations can be given to science and technology, the technological time lag; the status of technologists; industrial and academic research; the interaction of technologies; the cybernetic revolution; education and the environmental barrier; professional obsolescence; and the purpose of education.

This analysis and summary puts into perspective the historical background of the development of cybernetics and the 1960s concept of “general systems”, encountered by author.

Pays tribute to the foresight of Dr Rose at one of the most challenging periods in the development of these fields. The republication of these ideas in 2000 emphasised the accuracy of this predications of the 1960s.

Gives an insight into the thinking of the 1960s and written at a time when subsequent advances and developments could not have been predicted with any degree of certainty. Provides a view of the “new concepts” of cybernetics and discusses their implications. Reproduced without any alterations, the prize‐winning essay deals with science and technology; technological time‐lag; status of technologists; industrial and academic research; interaction of technologies; the cybernetic revolution; education and the environmental barrier; professional obsolescence; and finally, the purpose of education.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is supported by the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communications (RMKI). RMKI started a research and development project in 2003 with the aim of studying the knowledge management methods for long duration space research projects and to develop an information system providing a base for saving and using the knowledge gathered. The aim of this article is to investigate the RMKI research and development project.

This article first describes the environment of the project, details the questions identified by the project staff, and gives some characteristics of the solutions when found.

The article finds that the outcomes identified by a knowledge management project grow fast and have a tendency to become unmanageable very quickly, even if technical questions are taken into consideration when starting. The main question remains whether an acceptable solution exists in the area covered by the economical resources.

This article focuses on the technical aspects of knowledge management projects and identifies a mechanism for setting up an information system with the capacity to support knowledge preservation for at least a decade, which is considered to be a long period.