Publications
February 8, 2017
Weekly Report 17-07
EMPLOYERS BE AWARE THAT ‘DISCRIMINATION’ CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FURTHER SUPPORTED by new EEOC guidelines which expand ‘discrimination’ to include hiring decisions based on: (1) “Physical, linguistic or cultural traits” like accent or dress style; (2) Ethnicity or even perception that someone belongs (or not) to an ethnic group, regardless of their actual origin; (3) Requiring... Continue
February 1, 2017
Weekly Report 17-06
STRATEGIC PLANNING TYPICALLY NEGLECTS ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC RISKS which, over the past decade, have accounted for 86% of significant losses in company Valuation, according to a study published in Harvard Business Review. Strategic RISKS involve “external conditions that threaten to challenge the logic of a Company’s strategy… and could potentially disrupt” the business. Those threats... Continue
January 27, 2017
Weekly Report 17-05
NEW YEAR, NEW PRESIDENT, NEW DIRECTION – BUT DO NOT BE MISLED by headlines of rosy ‘Recovery’ or imagine that the new Administration will be able to reset today’s economic malaise. To begin with, the 4.6% claimed Unemployment rate, like so much government data, is “arrantly fake… a compound lie, in that it ignores the... Continue
January 19, 2017
Weekly Report 17-04
“NO MATTER HOW IMPROBABLE, THE EVENT MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN is the opposite of whatever the Davos consensus is.” Davos, Switzerland has hosted the World Economic Forum for 40 years, a conference of high-power business, banking & political leaders who “have nurtured a broad consensus in favor of globalization and open markets. At its core... Continue
January 11, 2017