People are worried because some people say that the economy might not do well in 2023. But there are other people like Christopher Thornberg, PhD who have a more positive view.

It’s important to know that the people who predict a downturn in the economy are often wrong. They didn’t predict the last four times the economy went down and they said the economy would go down other times, but it didn’t.

Also, just because people aren’t feeling confident about the economy, doesn’t mean it’s going to have a bad time. It just means that people are reading and hearing a lot of negative news.

There’s something called an inverted yield curve, which some people think means the economy is going to have a bad time.… Read the rest

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Servicio de interpretación disponible en todos los lenguajes. Contáctenos si necesita ayuda: https://www.oregonbrc.org/business-grants… Read the rest

This time of year, many people are focused on “new year, new me” or making “New Year’s Resolutions.”

Year ago, Einstein (or someone else) famously said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting the same results.”

And year after year, we fail at these ideas. And while we know this won’t work, we do it anyway. Partially because we know it won’t work so we self-sabotage, and partially because we don’t have a better way.

But there IS a better way, at least to TRY and do something longer lasting. Authors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, coauthors of the 2019 book The Wise Company, recently developed “six practices to make a better future” to help leaders focus on the most important drivers of simultaneous success.… Read the rest