Publications

March 4, 2021

Weekly Report 21-21

THE START OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY IS FORSEEABLE, obviously contingent on warmer weather slowing the virus and vaccinations which prevent long-term serious side effects from current and any new strains. Despite major impediments – like opening the border to millions more workers/ curtailing the oil/gas industry/ appointing & institutionalizing “unproductive commissar-like wokism”/ $30+ trillion federal debt... Continue
March 1, 2021

Weekly Report 20-20

PHISHING E-MAILS ARE THE START-POINT FOR OVER 90% OF CYBER ATTACKS and a third of all successful breaches, according to Deloitte. With digital communication being our everyday technology for connection and workflow, the problem is that humans consistently fall for phishing scams because we’re “busy juggling scores of pending tasks where taking quick action –... Continue
February 27, 2021

Weekly Report 20-19

TWO STATE LEGISLATURES HAVE NOW VOTED TO BLOCK PRESIDENTIAL ‘EXECUTIVE ORDERS’ if determined by their Attorney General and Legislature to be unconstitutional. Oklahoma followed North Dakota in a response to “power grabs & abuse of power in the form of sweeping ‘laws’ issued without authority from Congress …the Constitutional balance of power established by the... Continue
February 24, 2021

Weekly Report 21-18

“BUSYWORK IS OFTEN CHARACTERIZED AS A FORM OF PROCRASTINATION THAT FEELS PRODUCTIVE in the moment, but has little lasting impact.” And ‘inbox clearing’ is one of those tasks – momentarily satisfying, but often letting us get caught up in low-impact errands with little, if any correlation to priorities. Other impediments to efficiency and effectiveness include... Continue
February 21, 2021

Weekly Report 21-17

FOR MOST PEOPLE, “NO MEANINGFUL LIFE IS STRESS-FREE, but the big challenge in managing stress, which can otherwise “open the door to ‘Burnout’ – a toxic mix of exhaustion, reduced efficacy and increased cynicism about work, affecting some 2/3 of full-time workers at any given time (according to Gallup research) – is poor self-awareness… Managed... Continue