“This is a nightmare, which will pass away with the morning. For the resources of nature and man’s devices are just as fertile and productive as they ever were. The rate of our progress toward solving the material problems of life is not less rapid. We are as capable as…
Finding Your Inner Courage is another Welchway gem from Business Week. This time, Jack and Suzy Welch focus on us - how do leaders motivate themselves? When times are bleak and business challenges sap much of our energy, how can we renew our own commitment to success and find the…
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
The NY Times recently published an interview with Bob Seiwert, a senior vice president for the Center for Commercial Lending and Business Banking at the American Bankers Association, a trade group in Washington. Transparency. Full Disclosure. Risk Management. These are a few of the items on his checklist of key…
You should read the transcript From Ken Lewis testimony before the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives. It is a reasoned discussion of Bank of America's performance and highlights several key points that we rarely read about: The US taxpayers will receive $2.8 billion in dividends this…
This is a title of a new book previewed by Business Week. It's reportedly as simple to understand as McDonald's menu and recounts some familiar adages. In particular, though, it emphasizes the value of employee recognition. This is an invaluable tool at all times, but particularly now when employees are…
I digress . . . but I've always wanted to draw although I haven't scribbled much past a kindergarten lesson book. When I see this kind of talent, I see a true gift. Take a few minutes to watch this - and think about the perspective and artistry that she…
Fortune magazine recently interviewed Jim Collins, whose popular book, Good to Great, took the business community by storm a few years ago. He talks about the current turbulence and some of the variables uncovered in his research about companies that prevail during difficult times.Being securely moored in powerful values and…
Business Week recently summarized a concept called a "bonus bank". In short, it is an incentive plan in which a significant portion of annual bonuses, perhaps 1/3, is set aside to be paid out over time, 3 years in the BW example, based on the continuing achievement of established benchmarks…