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By: bhobart
July 12, 2012
When a need arises within a small to medium-sized company that requires legal expertise, it is very rare to have a permanent in-house counsel. Most of you do not hire people full-time to purely to focus on your company’s legal issues. When a need arises, you will call your attorney and will be billed for their time. What you understand in these important situations is that you're paying for their knowledge capital and years of experience, but it would be difficult to...
By: bhobart
July 5, 2012
Today I would like to discuss what we are seeing from the consultant’s standpoint with businesses around the world. What are we seeing now that the recovery, slow but steady, is starting to take hold?
There are basically three things happening overall with businesses today. By the way, this isn’t regional or industry-specific. Literally across the board, we are seeing a couple of key things play out that are not industry specific, not region specific, not just in the United States,...
By: bhobart
June 22, 2012
When I speak to groups, I like to give them a little homework to help make them aware of what’s going on in the world of Generation Y. I will ask them to pay attention to the media and articles they see about millennials or Gen Y and to determine how many of them are positive and how many of them are negative. Overwhelmingly, most articles are negative towards Gen Y, or at least the headlines are.
Recently, I read an article in the Arizona Republic about David Moskovitz and Justin...
By: bhobart
June 14, 2012
Have you taken a hard look at technology lately? It has really changed dramatically! In Florida, I met with a client who is from Switzerland, and he was tucking his children in bed at night through an iPhone. It is absolutely amazing what we can accomplish with technology these days. The way we do business has also changed completely in the twenty-first century. For example:
It used to be that you traded time for money and now you trade results for money. We used to put in long, hard twelve...
By: bhobart
June 8, 2012
Like some of you, in our house we have a junk drawer stuffed with miscellaneous items, just in case we might need them someday. For example, one time I found a great deal on 9-volt batteries, and knowing they would come in handy at some point, I tossed them into this drawer. When that day arrived, I opened the junk drawer, dug around and they were nowhere to be found. After digging around a few more times, I finally called out to my wife, “Sue, what did you do with the batteries?”...
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