Finance Topic

We seem to be progressing on the automated Monday report. We’re at the stage where folks have embedded the report as part of their Monday morning routine. Our current work has lately been focused on learning how to resolve the imbalances that come up and meeting the deadline. Once they get past the stage of…

This week there was an announcement that GE was going to go back to being an industrial company. I always knew that the company was an industrial conglomerate with sophisticated engine products, lightings and lightbulbs, medical equipments and other industrial products – too many to name. I also knew that GE had a financial component:…

The latest dispatch on the inequality front comes from a hedge fund. The article was part of a set in the McKinsey app, so even the “elites” are recognizing the need to do something about the inequality. Now I don’t typically regard the hedge funds or the Wall Street financial types as having a lot…

I think we are approaching the end of the budgeting project. This week we had a meeting with the lender/investor who may have been the prime instigator for this budget process. I didn’t know it, but the first time we went through the budget last November, they didn’t like the fact that we didn’t review…

There has been a couple of articles about certifications, as if it is a panacea for the skills gap. But just because someone is certified, does not mean that person will be able to solve problems or be able to creatively come up with solutions. I once worked at a refinery where a peer, who…

If you want people, especially the powers that be, to care about income inequality, then you are going to have to appeal to them differently. Occasionally I’ll read about how inequality leads to higher stress, or poorer health or shorter lifespan, or some such outcome. But that presumes that the wealthy and the powers that…