by Bruce | September 21, 2009 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
Did you know that the US has a “national intelligence official for warning?” Me neither. His name is Kenneth Knight and he oversees a staff of a half-dozen analysts whose job is essentially to monitor the rest of the intelligence community, challenging...
by Bruce | September 15, 2009 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
One year later, and what have we learned? The strong, almost unanimous, consensus in hindsight is that letting Lehman Bros. fail was what precipitated the global financial meltdown, or what at least accelerated and deepened it. But what if that consensus is wrong? I...
by Bruce | September 10, 2009 | About the Site, Articles
In terms of interest in superstition, astrology, etc., we’re about negative 8 on a 1–10 scale, but every once in awhile an odd historic and sociocultural belief arouses our curiosity. Everyone who watched last year’s opening ceremonies at the...
by Bruce | September 8, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
How could the SEC have missed all the warning signs about Madoff? Understand that I don’t have a dog in this hunt. Although I’m a securities lawyer by training, I never worked at the SEC and, so far as I know, I’m not close to anyone who lost serious...
by Bruce | September 7, 2009 | About the Site, Articles
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by Bruce | September 2, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Results are in from our poll of a few weeks ago in Where Have You Gone, Work-Life Balance? and here are the results (multiple answers were permitted): Since it’s hard to read, here are the results in order of popularity. The question, again, was...
