By:
Jim Thompson (jthompson@taii.com)
So, you have awakened in the new year and are confronting the reality that the budget to which you committed a couple of months ago is now cast in stone. The bravado of October and November turns into the cold, hard fear of January (unless you are in the southern hemisphere, where it is an unbearable outbreak of sweat). Budgets are certainly necessary, but lack the concrete absoluteness we all desire.
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