On public radio this weekend, a financial industry expert mentioned two places where Lehman and other big-firm staff might end up: (1) in the offices of boutique firms that can get top financial expertise for a lot less money, and (2) in the offices of growing firms that want to […]
Leadership and Management
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Politics is like baseball. If your team loses, you remember who struck out in the ninth inning, not who struck out in the fourth. — Howard Fineman, on McCain and blame assignation for the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, in Bailout ushers in the era of Obama, MSNBC, 29 September 2008. […]
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. — unknown author? I saw this attributed to Teddy Roosevelt but that strikes me as so odd that I won’t repeat the credit. But I will at least repeat the phrase, which makes a lot of sense. […]
Ronald Reagan often said “Trust. But verify” when negotiating with the Soviets. More cynically during the early 90s, I used to say “trust not, want not” after combining that Russian proverb with “waste not, want not.” Happily, I’ve lost my cynicism since then, but I still use the phrase as […]
Great work doesn’t just spring from the minds of one or two creative people. It is produced by an entire organization that understands and encourages that greatness. Such environments cannot be created by fiat. They are built cumulatively by every manager in the organization, bit by bit, over time, by […]
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.