Rebuilding Broken Trust: Mission Possible
By Vlad Vaiman In my latest article entitled “Trust as a Foundation of Organizational Success” in the Pacific Coast Business Times — published April 10 — I have argued that it is trust that serves as a groundwork for any success that companies can enjoy both in the short and long term. I have indicated Read More →
Trust as a foundation of organizational success
By Vlad Vaiman I have spent the past 20 years of my life researching the issues of talent management and consulting organizations on what they should do to attract, engage, develop, and retain their most valuable employees. Among some of the outcomes of my work is the framework for talent retention revealing what keeps people with Read More →
Prioritizing solutions to poverty will bring in revenue to our regional economy
By Laura Capps Costs of living on the Central Coast are skyrocketing, and poverty maintains a tight grip on the lives of too many of our residents. The 2020 Census calculated a 15.2% poverty rate for Santa Barbara County, one of the highest rates in the state that has the highest rate in the country. Read More →
Dubroff: Multiple cards in play as fallout from SVB failure persists
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SVB’s collapse and the feds response will continue to have ripple effects
Legendary investor Warren Buffett is famous for saying “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” Today, the “tide going out” is the rapid rise in interest rates that the Federal Reserve has implemented to combat inflation. When combined with leverage, the result is… nudity. The collapse of Silicon Valley Read More →
Our View: Bringing the brightest economic minds together
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Exempting military retiree pay could boost California’s high-tech workforce
California – one of the richest states in the nation – is the only state in America that fully taxes military retirement income, giving its 146,000 military retirees no tax breaks whatsoever on their service retirement. Why is California fully taxing its military retirees, defenders of our nation and hard-working citizens who often earned low Read More →
