Because of inflation and economic uncertainty, marketing spend is dropping back closer to pre-COVID levels, according to new data from The CMO Survey, a biannual poll conducted by the American Marketing Association, Deloitte and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The 314 responses collected in March indicate that marketing expenditures make up an average of […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same! The youngest generation of workers entering the workforce isn’t earning high marks from the older generations, to put it mildly. Generation Z aka the Zoomers are the “most challenging” age cohort to work with, according to a survey of 1,344 managers and supervisors by ResumeBuilder. […]
Small business CEOs and CFOs are as worried about inflation, tight credit, banks going under and a looming recession just as bigger companies’ leaders are. One of the widest differences in opinion is staffing. Large companies in a range of sectors, including technology, banking and healthcare, are laying off hundreds to thousands of employees. Slashing […]
Holding managers and staffers accountable for the work they do is a day-in, day-out job. Leaders in any organization may be tempted to let some folks off the hook for a minor mistake or communication breakdown sometimes. But letting an employee slide more than once can lead to a pattern of behavior that’s hard to […]
Asking for staffers’ input helps increase morale and boosts teamwork. It also leads to great ideas that help companies make and save money. Not all supervisors remember this on a regular basis. It’s easy to get tunnel vision and focus on the daily grind. Whether it’s the controller, credit manager or CFO at a company, […]
Increasingly clever cybercriminals are out to take your company’s money. They’d even stoop so low as hacking you with a purchase order that looks real. For example, emails with an attachment disguised as a purchase order can contain links to a bogus site that looks real enough to trick users into sharing sensitive account information. […]
Employees who are just getting started on their annual tax filing chores may come to you or other finance staffers for info. A lot of cash-strapped folks will be trying to save money by doing their taxes themselves, but they’ve got a couple of questions about the process. Consider sharing this list of the most […]
Hundreds of your C-suite peers retired or stepped down last year, and job-related burnout may have influenced their decisions. Among them were Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, DocuSign CEO Dan Springer and Red Lobster CEO Kelli Valade. More recently, on the international stage, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced she was resigning because she no […]
If you believe workplace polls, more than half of working adults do just about the bare minimum that’s required to keep their jobs. And that’s because their bosses either aren’t aware of the problem or (more commonly) they just let their employees get away with it. Unless supervisors and department heads confront staffers about performance […]
