Bob Gaby, CPA, has over 30 years of technology consulting and public accounting experience. He is a founding principal of Arxis Technology, Inc. (ATI), a management and technology consulting firm located in Simi Valley, California and a partner in Arxis Financial, Inc., a full service accounting firm affiliated with ATI. ATI sells, implements, and supports ...

Through life experience in various settings – whether in business, at church, or at home – I have observed that the most difficult challenge we face is change.  Whether it involves changing attitudes or behaviors, most of us don’t like it.  As shown below in Geoffrey Moore’s diagram on change management, over 80% of people ...

Monday night in yoga during a pose, my instructor said that sometimes the most difficult part of yoga is not knowing how long the pose is going to last. I agree!  He encouraged us to practice “open-ended effort” and use our breathing to work through the discomfort, the challenge of the pose and the unknown ...

In recent months, we have seen many changes, such as weather patterns on the planet creating changes in our environment unlike any we’ve seen in recent years, foreign and domestic threats and acts of terrorism, and family changes due to high unemployment rates and more expensive educational programs.  Human beings have an uncanny ability to ...

Conflicting priorities. New initiatives or opportunities. Emergencies or unexpected problems. The list goes on and all are things that can cause you to feel overwhelmed and like you’re going to drop the ball (or several balls). It doesn’t have to be that way, though, if we say a word many of us simply don’t use ...