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From Buddy to Boss

Whether you were a teammate or a team lead who has been promoted to a supervisor or manager (aka: the boss), you will have to face your coworker buddies who now report to you. To put it bluntly, yes this is awkward! Plan to address the awkw [...]

Capitalize at Your Own Expense!

Business expenditures generally may be recovered through a deduction against income at some point in time. The critical issue is “when.” If an expenditure must be capitalized, its deduction is delayed; the cost is recovered either over its [...]

Thriving During Change

I will never forget the first time I stumbled upon the Greek Philosopher Heraclitus and his famous notion that “there is nothing permanent except for change.”  I was a freshman in college and while I recognized the wisdom of the words [...]

Maximizing Balance and Outcomes through Intelligent Delegation

Business organizations and teams exist to perform jobs, that are too large, too complex, or too fast-changing for any one individual to do on their own. So why do so many people and teams still try to do everything themselves? And what is t [...]

The Administrative Assistant’s Ultimate Skill

I remember vividly “playing” with my mother’s manual typewriter. It was yellow, with a cool cover that attached to the body. I can still hear the sound the keys made when they struck the ribbon and feel the “click” and “zing” of the retur [...]

What To Do When You Don't Like Someone at Work

It’s not reasonable to like everyone all the time. Sometimes we just don’t like people, and we don’t always know why. Sometimes we know exactly what we don’t like about them. With some people, it doesn’t matter what you do; that dislike is [...]

Diversity and Equity is no Longer an Option

When the medica discuss claims of lack of diversity, equity or inclusivity as well as claims of bias or harassment at companies, they often focus on race, sex or gender. Yet it is much more than those three aspects.  Employers should b [...]

What Do You Know About Supply Chain

Today's Visibility:Most people have a minimal understanding of Supply Chain (SC).  Unless you’re immersed in the impacts of its operation, we typically take it for granted.  Even those who may be part of the SC don’t realize the i [...]

GAAP for Leases

The purpose of accounting rules is to communicate financial information in a transparent and economically neutral manner. Traditionally, operating leases were reflected as periodic charges on a lessee’s income statement and did not appear o [...]

Resolving Duplicate Values Within Excel Pivot Tables

When you transform a list of data into a meaningful report with a few mouse clicks in Excel, pivottables can feel like a blessing. On the other hand, when duplicate values appear in that pivottable, the feature may instead feel cursed. In t [...]