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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 read an article earlier in the week about Walmart and its plan to raise the wages of its employees. I can’t find the article but I am left with an impression that Sam Walton, the deceased founder, would roll over in his grave if he knew about the planned increases. There are two parts…
I’ve been fortunate enough that I can add some play into my work and still be accomplishing things. For instance, the early part of the week was discouraging as we got pressure to go manual in our reporting process. It was said that somebody in the field actually said, “Well, it worked the last week…
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…
And they are not lizards. Okay, I got a little surprise earlier in the week. I was giving the supervisors training on the automated report and one supervisor said one of her folks asked about doing the report manually. That person felt she loses the knowledge if the computer was doing it all for her….
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