Tom Spencer

JULY 1, 2017

Positivity has become something of a cult the past few years. Like political correctness and the ‘#gratitude’ craze, it comes from a good place – but is meaningless if performed by rote, rather than discovered through respect and mindfulness. Negativity is by no means a healthy attitude, but point-by-point identifying of negative trends within an atmosphere of constructive support can help to identify means of improvement that might be overlooked by those wary to dwell on failure or mistakes.

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MishTalk

JULY 1, 2017

Total capitulation by Governor Bruce Rauner is in the works. The taxoholics wore him down. In the emergency session, Rauner has agreed to hike the personal income tax rate to 4.95% from the current 3.75%. The corporate income tax rate will rise to 7% from the current 5.25% rate. For what? Nothing. Reforms are nonexistent. (more…).

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 1, 2017

I know dozens of people who have a story about meeting, or nearly meeting, or somehow engaging with Bob Dylan. And just about everyone they know has questions about him, about those encounters, about what it was like. My guess is that these stories began to spring up long before he was a Nobel Prize winning legend. The question, then: Who has a story about you?

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MishTalk

JULY 1, 2017

On Friday, both the Atlanta Fed and New York Fed updated their GDP 2nd quarter forecasts. The FRBNY Nowcast remained at 1.9% while GDPNow dipped to 2.7% narrowing a once gigantic spread to 0.8 percentage points. (more…).

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2017

Much has been written about strategic clarity and why it is so critical to effective strategy execution. When strategies are unclear or unbelievable, plans never make it across the finish line. And what good is a strategy if it is not translated into actions that carry the organization forward? We know that executing strategy is difficult. A study by IBM found that less than 10% of well formulated strategies are effectively executed.

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