Publications

March 11, 2021

Weekly Report 21-23

THE BIGGEST SINGLE DRIVER OF ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY & PROFITABILITY involves communication of employee goals & expectations which clarify their role and motivate commitment which elevates worker performance, according to McKinsey.  DCG experience is that the most effective tactics to achieve this objective involve: (1) Linking key employees to the company’s strategic goals, objectives & priorities,... Continue
March 8, 2021

Weekly Report 21-22

IN NORMAL TIMES, PEOPLE HANDLE UNCERTAINTIES BY RELYING ON PREVIOUS CULTURE, STRUCTURES & PROCESSES, but nothing about the past year has been normal, and maintaining stability (and sanity) is now a matter of continuous attention, learning and flexible response as circumstances evolve. Businesswise, the severity and speed of this pandemic’s economic & political impacts is... Continue
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