Weekly Reports

STRATEGIC PLANNING BEGINS WITH STRATEGIC THINKING, WHICH BEGINS WITH CAPACITY TO FOCUS – a not-so-easy practice when uncertainty, disrupted routines and chaotic surroundings keep increasing these days. Our minds need “time to give the brain opportunity to pause, untangle, and... Continue

IN A MATTER OF MONTHS, SOCIETY HAS CHANGED FROM PERCEIVING REMOTE WORK as a “luxury, or even ‘freelancer lifestyle,’ to realizing the vast majority of jobs today can be done from home. Video calls have gone from being a suboptimal... Continue

“FALSE NARRATIVE ABOUT INNOCENT BLACKS BEING DISPROPORTIONATELY shot by white cops and targeted by racist white civilians… have devastating consequences to society. This narrative is played hourly on cable news, embellished by newspapers & magazines, by cynical & opportunistic politicians,... Continue

MAJOR BENEFICIAL CHANGES TO THE PPP LOAN PROGRAM, now passed by House & Senate: (1) Requirement to expend 75% of loan for payroll within 8 weeks is now 60% over 24 weeks; (2) Restoring to pre-Covid workforce level is no... Continue

THE EVOLVING POST-PANDEMIC ‘NEXT NORMAL’ SHOULD BEGIN WITH ORGANIZATIONS TACKLING TWO OVERRIDING FACTORS: (1) Anticipating and planning to deal with “tension from the divide between execs managers who easily adapted to working from home and to flexible, ill-defined processes &... Continue