Weekly Reports

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... Continue

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... Continue

“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... Continue

“THE RELENTLESS MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY has brought us to a point where machines & software are not just outworking us, but starting to outthink us.” Tesla’s latest software enables a driver to see two cars ahead on the road and... Continue

A GENUINELY FUNNY RECAP OF 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dave-barrys-year-in-review-trump-and-the-hideous-monstrosity-that-was-2016/2016/12/29/17c84a14-b7d6-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.74fe5ec308c4&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1 NEW 2017 CALIFORNIA LAWS TO BE AWARE OF: (1) Immigration Protections: Employers are subject to a $10,000 penalty for requesting more documents than the federal I-9 forms demands, failure to honor documents that... Continue