Talking Points
Tired of giving the same old presentations? Use these nuggets of information to spruce them up.
Reported by PLANADVISER Staff
- “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” —Abraham Lincoln
- More than one-third (35%) of executives interviewed by Robert Half International said good employees are most likely to quit their jobs because of unhappiness with management. The second most common reason good employees leave, based on interviews with 150 senior executives from the nation’s 1,000 largest companies, was limited opportunities for advancement (33%). Lack of recognition and inadequate salary and benefits were each cited by 13% of respondents
- Why do you have to “put your two cents in,” but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”?
- April 15 has not always been the deadline for filing income taxes. March 1 was the date specified by Congress in 1913, after the passage of the 16th amendment, which authorized the power to impose and collect income tax. In 1918, Congress pushed the date forward to March 15, where it remained until the tax overhaul of 1954, when the date was again moved ahead to April 15.