Let me give President Obama a reprieve for a few days, especially after the abomination (or is it obamanation) of his Thursday evening performance pretending to the nation that he has a clue as to…;
Business & Investment
The Charismatic Leader
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with two intelligent female professionals in a business consulting firm in town who had come over to chat with me a little bit about a particular company who had…;
Aetna Insurance–A Customer Service Debacle
I was just exposed to what I believe to be the stupidest automated voice recognition system (AVRS) that just about any major corporation has ever installed in all of human history. It comes from Aetna…;
Goldman Sachs (Part 3)
The other day, I blogged about the desire, in the future, to provide daily P&L statements as part of the daily Flash Report I receive each morning. I received several comments, both on an off…;
Eyes on Debt
Interestingly enough, the bleak situation in Greece has diverted attention somewhat from the recession and focused it instead on the overall role of debt at the governmental level. The European Union (EU), sharing a common…;
Goldman Sachs (Part 2)
I have any number of takeaways from the Goldman Sachs experience. One takeaway deals with the way they handled financial management. I was thrilled when listening to the testimony. I remember that, as our business…;
Goldman Sachs
I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally…;
Greatest Pain
You know, the greatest pain for me…was the loss of associates…many of whom had been with me for a decade or more. We had the opportunity, at a prior time, to shut down the entire…;
Replicate
It is certainly not the end. And some might actually call it the beginning…of a new set of challenges and issues to solve. My objective is to replicate what we did, but first, I have…;
No Man Left Behind
I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in…;