Weekly Reports

2/3 OF FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES NEVER MAKE IT TO THE SECOND GENERATION (and 85% are gone by the 3rd) – mostly because they are seldom structured or managed effectively. Controlling owners find it uncomfortable to balance multiple roles; family members have... Continue

  CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS NOTE NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE NOW: ‘INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR’ classification (1099) law now stipulates a ‘legal presumption’ that ALL workers, unless professionally Licensed, are Employees, irrespective of written agreements. To escape the presumption, workers must now satisfy all three legislated... Continue

     THOUGHTS FOR  YEAR-END CONTEMPLATION ‘TIME MANAGEMENT’ IS AN ILLUSION. It passes irrespective of our desire, intention or behavior. So framing efforts to improve productivity or efficiency in the context of the ‘clock’ is misdirected. Reality is that the problem in... Continue

LAX IS THE 4TH BUSIEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD, annually serving over 87 million passengers with half departing on planes every 50 seconds, after having been “cross-profiled with algorithms and matched against ‘watch-lists’ some twenty different ways,” then screened (along... Continue

AS 2020 STRATEGY EVOLVES, EMPLOYERS NEED AWARENESS THAT ‘GENERATION Z’ KIDS, born after 2000, are now entering the job market with perspective quite different than any previous generation. Effective management involves both understanding their unique perspective and procedural integration with... Continue