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Some Changes Are Not Always Better
I read once that the shark hasn’t evolved in tens of millions of years. At some point, it reached perfection in its swimming and eating skills, so it had no...
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15 Attributes of Top CEOs
This week’s Barron’s July 11, 2022 cover story is about the top two dozen CEOs. A criterion that has usually been used to identify the top CEOs was their company’s...
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Libraries Are More Than Just Books
I just attended a meeting at my local public library and coincidentally just finished reading a book about a library. Neither is what you might think it would be about....
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The Rule of Life by Kurt Vonnegut
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred...
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Addressing the Top 3 Data Needs of Financial Professionals
Withum’s Advisory Teams focus on modernizing IT systems, streamlining business processes, and analyzing data across the enterprise. But Withum is also a top 25 Public Accounting firm in the United...
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Avoiding Stock Market Ups and Downs
You cannot avoid stock market ups and downs. There will always be volatility and changes. Actually, the stock market is a vast auction, and for every seller, there is a...
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New Semester at Fairleigh Dickinson
Today a new semester starts at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). I will be teaching Auditing in the Master of Accounting Program. This will be the ninth course I will be...
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Making Sense of a Wacky Stock Market
Yesterday (September 13), the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up about 375 points and closed down 1276 points or a loss for the day of 3.9%. The S&P 500 index...
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Noise and Working More Effectively
There are too many distractions that divert our energies from what is really important to us. We have limited time, and we all have too much to do and too...
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Discover Knowledge Management Tools Within Microsoft 365
Knowledge management is back on the menu. Early in my SharePoint career, knowledge management (KM) was a topic that was front and center in my conversations with internal stakeholders and...