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Kyler Murray’s armored car has arrived at the proverbial fork in the road. Either direction he chooses will result in that Brink’s truck being stuffed with enough dinero to last several lifetimes. In the coming weeks Murray must decide whether ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

 “Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right!” — Oprah Winfrey This column will continue my attempt to convince tax-exempt organizations that traditional monthly financial statements, without dashboard analysis, are a failure in terms ...

Tagged with: Gerald Archibald Non-profit Management

Every January there are predictions about what will happen in the upcoming year. At Voice+Code, we’ve put together advice about how businesses can use technology to be more successful in 2019. Reactions to technology changes need to be faster and ...

Tagged with: Heidi Trost technology

Do you need some inspiration as you enter the new year? Still tired from the one that just ended? Do any of your New Year’s resolutions involve your life as a manager? According to a study published in Psychology Today, ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

His golf credentials are impeccable, but in the coming weeks and months we may discover how skilled Jason Ballard is at another endeavor — juggling. Life is about to become quite hectic for the fifth-year Oak Hill Country Club head ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

On Dec. 13, I had the great pleasure of attending a meeting of the Rochester Chapter of Conscious Capitalism held in the offices of SWBR Architects. The meeting was advertised as “Measuring What Matters” and featured work undertaken by SWBR ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

The month of December was a brutal one for investors, with the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 indices falling more than 10 percent, and the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 indices falling approximately 12 percent and 14.5 percent, ...

Some giddy Buffalo Bills fans and commentators have rushed to judgment. They’ve already anointed Josh Allen as the second coming of Jim Kelly. To me, that’s a leap of faith greater than Allen’s Olympic-style hurdle of that linebacker during Buffalo’s ...

In the mid-1990s I was early on a legal career path that would eventually lead to becoming the general counsel for a multi-platform media company lauded as one of the success stories of the “.com days” and Nasdaq stock market. ...

About 20 years ago, I graduated from college with a degree in marketing and not a clue on what to do with it. It was the period of early transition from traditional marketing to the new world of digital. Side ...

Whether you’re an early adopter, a fast follower or a late-to-the-party traditionalist, you can’t escape one fact: Technology is changing the culture of your company. And it’s doing it at a pace that’s fast and furious. Advancements in technology have ...

One of the most rewarding things about my job is the education I receive. Every topic I tackle, every interview I do, I learn something new. Often, I am inspired. That’s certainly been the case this past year. Thumbing through ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The explosion in the use of exchange-traded funds (EFTs) over the past 15 years constitutes a revolution in the investment world. ETFs have done much to democratize investing by making the financial markets more easily accessible to retail investors, often ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

I have a difficult time understanding the controversy surrounding New York State tax incentives that led Amazon to locate half of its East Coast HQ2 facility in Long Island City. I expect this development to create 25,000 jobs and have ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

Until recently, many people didn’t realize how much of their personal data was being collected and stored in the digital realm. The truth is that companies capture, store and analyze large amounts of consumer data every day. They look at ...

Tagged with: Heidi Trost