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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…
In this age of instant gratification, we no longer have patience. We talk about efficiency and speed and at the same time talk about 10,000 hours and discipline. But I think the efficiency has won out because the number 2 item businesses focus on (number 1 being shareholder value) is efficiency. But sometimes you have…
It’s amazing how big companies want to use people’s work for free. Today I read an article about a science fiction writer who was asked by Warner if they could use his interview for free. (A Scathing, Brutally Honest Rant About Not Working for Free BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY | FRI, NOV 14 http://pulse.me/s/36dx9F ) Earlier I…
There’s a lot of bad actors in this world. They range from the infantile teenagers to the truly malicious. The latest set of news are about the massive breach at JPMorgan, which, being a financial firm, would have one of the strongest set of security plans in place and yet, they’ve been hacked. This means just about everybody is…
This post will be something different – it won’t be about Excel, math, data, programming or finance/accounting. It’s off the beaten path. Earlier in the week I saw a SlideShare about the hiring process. The author spoke about his experience with hiring and it was very uplifting. He has a different approach to hiring: for…
I was doing something new the other day and was surprised at the outcome. I ended up with a situation where no matter my starting position, I usually ended up with either you flame out before you reached 50 rounds (most likely 10 rounds) or you succeed and run on to 650 rounds – my…
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