Weekly Reports

THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS: degree of overall expectation and surprise!  So concludes a recent neuroscience study involving MRI scanning of over 18,000 participants finding that (1) “Happiness depends on how reality pans out relative to expectation,” particularly when having pursued... Continue

“O WOULD SOME POWER THE GIFT TO GIVE US: TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US” (Robert Burns, poet). As conventional employee management increasingly conflicts with rapidly changing technology and millennial attitudes, the willingness and ability of Companies to adapt... Continue

THE GRAY ECONOMY IS COMPRISED OF UNDER-EMPLOYED WORKERS, “either jobless, too discouraged to seek work, or working less than they’d like to or in off-the-books jobs” – some two million in LA County and over 16% statewide, tied with Nevada... Continue

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN COMPENSATION FOR EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION are ‘soft’ factors. Studies consistently find that today’s workers are looking for – and demanding: (1) Realistic career growth opportunity, including tools, training and responsibility; (2) Leadership from a management team that... Continue

• ‘RED TAPE’ REGULATIONS CONTINUE TO STRANGLE small businesses and entrepreneurs. Rule-writers at all levels (federal, state, city, local & neighborhood) seldom, if ever, look at cost:benefit impacts – but rather on generating revenue to support their own regime, and/or... Continue