Weekly Reports

IN TODAY’S DIGITAL-SPEED BUSINESS WORLD, PERFORMANCE REVIEW ON AN ANNUAL BASIS is being increasingly recognized as both inefficient and ineffective. Professional and Service organizations in particular are converting to more frequent data-gathering and direct feedback programs, including ‘future-focused’ discussions which... Continue

• 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

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

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

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