Doing the Whitewash?
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Doing the Whitewash?

(Re-posting because for some reason I could not access on the site. Originally posted May 10th.) During the last two weeks, I saw some articles that look like folks were trying to capitalize on current trends that might help burnish their image. One was an article about farming and bringing healthy food to people while…

Break the Rules
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Break the Rules

I’m not saying run through the red lights or book fictitious revenues – there are reasons for those kind of rules. But there are others that you can and probably NEED to break in order to attain productivity. Like, are you still manually inputting numbers into your spreadsheets? Why? Here is where you can do…

That's Just Evil

That’s Just Evil

I read an article earlier in the week about Walmart and its plan to raise the wages of its employees. I can’t find the article but I am left with an impression that Sam Walton, the deceased founder, would roll over in his grave if he knew about the planned increases. There are two parts…

PI Day

3.14.15 PI Day

Okay, I can’t let the day go by without referencing to the fact that today is PI day. There are some constants that appears in numerous situations and formulas and PI is one of them. I wish I had saved an article I read today where it mentioned an equation that held all of the…

Something Different

Something New

Well, there’s a new in thing going around, or is at least more successful than I would have thought. On Thursday, we had a team building event where we got together to paint at Pinot’s Palette. Yep, painting. It appears that folks are enamored of painting, so Pinot’s Palette has “classes” where an artist guides…

So Called Skills Gap

The So Called Skills Gap

This is not a topic about anything related to numbers such as finance, math or excel but more about the current social environment we have right now. Companies have been complaining that there is a skills gap and that is why open positions remain open for a long time. But that doesn’t make sense because…