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There has been a spate of articles about inequality, even from a food commentator in the New York Times. The gist is that during the last 30 years (since the 80’s, if not even the 70’s), most of the economic gains went into the pockets of the wealthy. Then, since the 2008 Great Recession, all of the…
About two weeks ago I was working on a project where we had to analyze the budgets for 30 properties to make sure they were realistic and contained nothing unusual. This was very sudden and we had about a week to go through all of the files and make sense of the historical data as…
So blares the McKinsey article titled “Getting More Out of Offshoring the Finance Function”, dated Nov. 21, 2014. The whole tone of the article seems rather breathless. Of course, I’m biased since I have been adversely affected by this trend. The economics of it is compelling: it is hard to compete against $5/hour wage. No…
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…
Now I think I know what people mean about being authentic. A couple of days ago I received an email from a guy who posted his comment in the Project Control group of LinkedIn. On the surface of it, he was directing us to a “mystery” blogger who was writing about his ‘day in the…
Carl Icahn is back in the news again; he’s agitating Apple to buy back shares as a way of increasing shareholder values. But why should Apple give money to people like him who are providing nothing of value to the company? All Icahn and his ilk are doing is sucking money out of corporations. Instead, that…
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