Financial Planning in an Unusual Year
Financial planning has never been a particularly easy task for companies, but the pandemic has made it even more difficult. Those charged with creating viable budgets are used to accuracy, consistency, and fairly predictable planning cycles — not the uncertainty their organizations are living with today. “The five-year plan is…
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Bert Miller on Ancillary Businesses in Cannabis
The first piece of advice I have is obvious… make sure you keep up with even the subtlest of changes to regulations and trends in the cannabis business. Small changes to cannabis business can yield major changes and adaptation for its ancillary businesses. Know your audience. Though this is a…
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BERT MILLER ON LIMITING BELIEFS
In life we are given choices. Most of the time we aren’t able to recognize how many choices we actually have. We limit ourselves and build massive barriers that block us from seeing what we are legitimately capable of achieving. Drive comes into it as well. Beyond ability, there’s willingness.…
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BOURBONS WITH BERT (EPISODE 2): BERT MILLER & SALMA EL WARDANY TALK GENDER + EQUALITY
Bert Miller is CEO and Founder of Protis Global a badass recruitment and advisory firm headquartered in the Wynwood Art District (Miami). He doesn’t shy away from big topics, while understanding that sometimes the devil is in the details, and always has a good bourbon within reach. In our second…
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THE FRAGILITY OF DIVERSITY
TALK, TALK, TALK AND TALK SOME MORE: Diversity hasn’t progressed in the way it should have because of blind spots and unconscious bias. We all have them and it’s human nature, however, it’s only when we recognize and are familiar with the problems that we can do anything about them.…
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WORK/LIFE BALANCE : MANAGING THE WORK
philosophy, if you will, insinuates to some degree that there is no overlap and that parameters of time and geography dictate level of involvement in your career. Now you are telling yourself that a focus on work can only occur between the hours of 9am and 5pm on weekdays. Additionally,…
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CULTURE SERIES PART III: BUILDING POSITIVITY + PERFORMANCE
1. BE THE POSITIVITY YOU WANT TO SEE The leadership can sit around that boardroom table as much as they like, but if they’re not living by the things they’re discussing, you can forget about it. (See our Culture Series Part I). If positivity and encouragement, laughter and empowerment are…
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