January 16, 2018
• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRM MERGER/ACQUISITION accelerated last year in size and quantity, responding to economic conditions. Principal motivation for larger firms involved recruitment of staff as well as clientele, and for expectation of increased margins through economies of scale; for... Continue
Weekly Report 18-03
January 9, 2018
THE POST-MILLENNIAL GENERATION – KIDS BORN AFTER 2000 BEST KNOWN AS ‘GEN Z’ – have grown up during a period of mass disruption, watching parents lose jobs & retirement savings, older siblings achieve college degrees but struggle for jobs to offset... Continue
Weekly Report 18-02
January 2, 2018
GET READY FOR AN EXCEPTIONALLY CHALLENGING YEAR: AS POLITICIANS CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE INCREASED EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES, forecasts predict up to 375 million workers globally needing to learn new skills for transition to available occupations over the next dozen years. Automation... Continue
Weekly Report 18-01
December 11, 2017
DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS HAVE CREATED “INABILITY TO FOCUS for longer than a minute,” impacting job performance and productivity. Combined with social network conversation, the web’s perpetual news cycle and feeds (which are “algorithmically structured to keep users scrolling and sharing, for... Continue
Weekly Report 17-52
December 9, 2017
HAPPY NEW YEAR. WHAT’S AHEAD IN 2018? FOR THE ECONOMY: “If history is any guide (and it often is), the business cycle is coming to an end. The world economy tends to tip into a recession every 8 to 10... Continue