by Bruce | January 17, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
I recently wrote about the dearth of critical thinking abroad in the land. Now I’d like to bookend that piece with a classic from The Harvard Business Review, "Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?" The opening lines are priceless; I would ask you...
by Bruce | January 12, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Every day, these days, and more than once, I ask myself, what all this means for our profession and our industry. By "all this" I refer, of course, to the economic environment. Here are some of the hypotheses I’m putting in front of people I talk with:...
by Bruce | January 1, 2009 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
This is actually a new-for-2009 Waterford crystal ball, approximately 10 feet in diameter, weighing over 12,000 pounds, covered with 2,668 crystal triangles, and illuminated by more than 32,000 LEDs. Happy big bad bright New Year. Actually, Dear Reader, I...
by Bruce | December 30, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Perspective. It’s time for some. A friend of mine who’s the lead financial reporter for one of the original three networks prompts these thoughts. Not that he/she subscribes to the view that it’s time for some "perspective"–au...
by Bruce | December 27, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
Actually, the formulation of that headline that I prefer these days is the famous inversion by the Nobel economist Paul Samuelson: "If you’re so rich how come you’re so dumb?" And yes, that brings us promptly to the Bernard Madoff scandal. Among...
by Bruce | December 21, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." —Mark Twain, in a cable from London to US publishers, who had mistakenly printed his obituary. And so, for the entirety of my career, has it been the case with predictions of the demise of the...