Day: November 29, 2023

Boisterous Praise for Business Cliches

The Spare Change Podcast Business professionals are encouraged to “think outside the box” while at the same time are admonished by success coaches, consultants and bored journalists for talking inside the box with trite clichés and pithy aphorisms. Listen to more of the Spare Change PodcastRead More

Time to Jump on the Semiquincentennial Bandwagon

With the holiday shopping season in full swing and consumers spending more than $10 billion over the so-called Cyber Weekend – a nearly 8% increase compared with 2022 – forward-looking companies are already looking ahead to what 2024 will bring. But they aren’t thinking far enough ahead. In less than three years, America will celebrate […]Read More

Embrace Change When Setting Annual Performance Goals

[wp_ulike style=”wp-ulike-pro-default”] Over many decades, we have become accustomed to all levels of management reminding us to report our annual results compared to the objectives set at the beginning of the year.  After all, many companies tie compensation to the results of the current year that were submitted and approved by levels of management earlier […]Read More

Did You Know Your Voice Can Be Cloned by Scammers?

The development of artificial intelligence has been hailed as a breakthrough technology that can help businesses become more efficient. But is also another way scammers can defraud businesses and consumers. To meet the threat, the Federal Trade Commission recently announced the Voice Cloning Challenge to help promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from […]Read More