Quarterly Earnings Season: When PowerPoint Becomes an Olympic Sport Every three months, capitalism transforms into a global pageant of charts, jargon, and overconfidence known as earnings season. Executives rehearse their lines, analysts sharpen their spreadsheets, and entire economies brace for the ritualistic release of numbers that may or may not mean anything. According to Bloomberg, […]
Office Back to Office: Why Companies Can’t Quit Cubicle Culture The global return-to-office experiment is going exactly as predicted: reluctantly, expensively, and with far too many motivational posters. Three years after promising that hybrid work was the future, corporations have decided the future was overrated. Bloomberg reports that more than 60 percent of large companies […]
The New Economic Order: Now with More Meetings and Less Productivity The global economy has evolved. Not into something faster, leaner, or smarter, but into something more calendar-dependent. Productivity is down, GDP is wobbling, and inflation is doing interpretive dance, yet the only thing truly booming is the number of meetings. According to Bloomberg, the […]
The World Is Out of Money : But Not Out of PowerPoint Presentations Global finance has entered a new era of austerity theatre. The world’s balance sheets are bleeding, governments are borrowing from tomorrow’s taxes to fund today’s panic, and yet every conference room from Davos to Dubai remains brightly lit by a thousand PowerPoint […]