I have seen the “safety net” today and it is in trouble as every funding source shrinks the money provided for projects and operations. And you could do something about it by volunteering your time and knowledge to help a not for profit survive, especially a social service provider to the neediest. In 2007, Harvard […]
Friday, July 10, 2009
It is almost two years since the peer advisory board of CEOs I chair began explicit planning for the storm on the horizon. They have made not only the easy moves and the challenging moves, but acted on the list of measures they thought they would never invoke unless survival of the enterprise were at […]
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Wrong question. Rather, are we prepared for wherever we are going? An all-day conference of companies owned by private equity doyen Castle Harlan and their Australian partners provided benchmarks for the second question. It was reassuring to see so many weathering 2008 so well and so many seizing opportunities to position for growth after the […]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The feckless, amoral Congress ranted about TARP money funding Wall Street bonuses, then stopped fulminating. But where were the elected representatives and the administration’s money-disbursers when they allowed AIG to pay down tens of billions of debt to their friends at Goldman Sachs and the like. This did not reduce toxic assets or increase the […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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