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I think, cross my fingers, that the second round of budgeting is over but I learned something: I think I may have gotten lazy over the years. My boss can work long hours for days on end, which is intimidating and a bit worrisome. Do people now expect you to pull multiple days of working…
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…
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…
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