September 22, 2020
FAMILY BUSINESSES WHICH DON’T UTILIZE AN ‘ADVISORY BOARD’ GENERALLY FAIL TO OPTIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL, since relying solely on a management team to guide themselves often results in ‘failing to see the forest for the trees.’ An effective Advisory Board is... Continue
Weekly Report 20-79
September 19, 2020
MOST FAMILY BUSINESSES WHICH HAVE TRANSITIONED TO AT LEAST 2nd GENERATION have not been negatively impacted by the pandemic, versus large publically funded/traded companies, based on a global survey covering 25 industries in 20 countries. The rationale is that while... Continue
Weekly Report 20-78
September 16, 2020
80% OF ROBOCALLS COME FROM FAKE NUMBERS, and answering or not “has no effect on how many more you’ll receive.” Based on a one-year study of over 1.5 million calls on 66K phone lines by researchers at No. Carolina State... Continue
Weekly Report 20-77
September 14, 2020
REMAINING PRODUCTIVE WHILE WORKING AT HOME IS CHALLENGING FOR MOST – worse even than office work, where typical disruptions occur every three minutes and can take up to 23+ minutes to get ‘back on task’ according to a recent UC-Irvine... Continue
Weekly Reports 20-76
September 9, 2020
THE FUTURE OF ‘WORK’ IS AMONG THE MOST MAJOR ISSUE OF OUR TIMES. As the number of ‘Software Robots’ (aka digital workers) “representing the new division of labor between humans and machines – and our evolving co-dependency – are projected... Continue