Publications
August 24, 2015
Weekly Report 15-34
• TECHNOLOGY “HAS PROVIDED OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT WITH THE WORLD, enhance our lives and bring people together. But, like all good things, has its dark side… Among the most important trends are technology’s impact on human interaction and the breakdown of skills” including: (1) Decision-making based on social media profiles versus engaging in conversation to... Continue
August 18, 2015
Weekly Report 15-32
MILLENNIALS ARE SUDDENLY LOOKING MORE LIKE A GENERATION OF INDIVIDUALISTS THAN COLLABORATORS. Priorities and work-habits of the Y-generation, now aged 15 to 35 and the largest group in America’s workforce, are pretty consistently conjectured as collaborating team players, allergic to being managed or evaluated (except for praise), and focused primarily on social responsibility in their... Continue
August 18, 2015
Weekly Report 15-33
OF NON-HOME-BASED U.S. BUSINESSES, 99.7% HAVE FEWER THAN 100 EMPLOYEES – roughly 23 million companies which employ over half the working population and generate over half the country’s sales. Up to 380,000 are projected to be sold in each of the next thirteen years as Baby Boomers retire, most of which will be ‘valued’ without... Continue
August 1, 2015
Weekly Report 15-31
SELLING OR BUYING A BUSINESS IS USUALLY MORE ART THAN SCIENCE. Sellers predominantly aspire to ‘price’ – a number conceptualized from what something/somewhere sold for, or a broker put in their mind, a ‘valuation’ from some appraiser or accountant, imaginative perception of what the business ‘ought to be’ worth, or what they simply think is... Continue
July 26, 2015