CEO Speak

There is arguably only one other group of leaders who speak with more obfuscation than corporate CEOs: athletic coaches.
But coaches aren’t trained so well in the art of language, metaphor and style as are CEOs. Thus, coaches lingo often appears as trite as it is credible:

First Coach
“They’ve had […]

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Accountants and Attorneys Anyone?

No business can start or run without two specialists: an accountant and a lawyer.
My visceral description of an accountant is a writer of history. You know the type: Tacitus, Livy, Plutarch, Will Durant, Bruce Catton, Arnold Toynbee. Something happens and someone follows up to record the events. In the […]

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Antiques (and CEO’s) Roadshow

It’s every collector’s dream: take a few bucks spent at a yard-sale or a flea market and turn it into a jackpot . . . earning a staggeringly high rate of return on one’s original investment. This is Antiques Roadshow, the wildly poplar (okay, it’s not “Dancing with the Used-to-be and Never-really-quite-were Stars”, but it […]

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wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be […]

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Investing: Go Abroad By Staying Home

In reviewing personal and institutional investment portfolios and investment allocation strategies, I’m faced with the question of foreign investment.
Often client concerns, I think naturally so, begin with the biggest picture . . . the most “macro” fears or anxieties by which one can become infected just by reading the local paper:

China continues […]

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Leadership in the Not-for-Profits: What They’re Worth . . .

Chief Executive Officer
Methodist Healthcare / Hospitals
$875,000

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Quotes

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.”

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