This site under reconstruction.
While I need to keep this post short because I’m trying to focus on getting a series of tasks done, I do want to mention that there has been a lot of news about labor shortage. Republicans say that the benefits are making workers lazy and living a life of leisure with the $300 per…
I encountered Heather McGowan through my readings of Thomas Friedman’s writings. He was writing on a topic about the future, where we will be forced to continuously learn because technology will be progressing so fast that skills become rapidly outmoded. That is pretty much Heather McGowan’s contention: we will be continuously adapting and learning as…
McKinsey does a lot of writing on various business topics which I happen to read occasionally. A few weeks ago, an email came out on the topic of stakeholder capitalism which kind of surprised me. As a consulting firm considered the premier consulting firm, I would imagine that a lot of their consultants came from…
So far, all indicators in the US is that things are improving. We just had Memorial Day and it felt like people were starting to come out and enjoy life, even though we have not reached the “herd immunity” levels. The Northeast has the highest vaccination levels while the South has the lowest. As a…
It’s been a while since CEO of Gravity Payments raised everybody’s wages to the minimum of $70K – what he thought was a living wage for his area. And the company is still around and succeeding, despite all of the naysaying. There’s been a lot of news lately about the labor employment/unemployment rate from the…
Well, this is HUGE. And coming from Forbes magazine which I regard as ultra capitalistic in philosophy – cut taxes, don’t raise minimum wage, let the free market do its stuff. “For the first time, employees are considered companies’ most important stakeholders for long-term success—three times more important than shareholders.” “Employees Are More Vital To…