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Have you ever heard of anybody winning awards for great budgets? Me neither, at least, not in the industries that I came from. So why do we continue to work long hours on something people really don’t care about? I mean, they care but they don’t really care. There has to be a way to…

We were supposed to be done by Friday, but we might have gotten maybe 50% done. The first day we worked until 10:00 pm. The next day we were there until midnight. The following day 2:30 am. By Friday we were running low on energy and we finally had to quit when we received a…

Next week will be a long week as we will sit in a room for four straight days going over the budget. It will be intense as we go over the weak parts of the various budgets. I have never done this kind of review with people outside of the company so it will be…

There’s a new term for capitalism being touted: inclusive capitalism. Basically, we need to include the poor and middle class in the productivity gains, not just flow the money to the already wealthy. The leaders in government and Davos are talking about it and proposals are being discussed. The elites are waking up to the…

I just read recently that eBay and American Express are planning some layoffs, even after some healthy profits. So now, it’s no longer about laying off people to get back into profits; it’s about laying off people so that executives can direct more money into theirs and shareholder’s pockets. To quote from the article: “Yahoo…

The average American saw stagnant income during the 2000’s, if not earlier. Then came the housing crash around 2006/2007 followed by the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The fall precipitated the swoon of AIG and other banking entities, leading to a fear of economic collapse. Banks held out their hands looking for a bailout….