Figuring Out What CEOs Really Want from Life
Karl Moore, Contributor
Karl Moore, Contributor
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Next week’s guest on Intelligent Investing with Steve Forbes is James Reynolds, Jr., the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Loop Capital Markets. Loop Capital is the largest minority owned investment bank in the country. He is also the Chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. Additionally, Reynolds also participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago[...] read »
Seth Kahan published on Fast Company the following report on the workshop that is currently taking place in Washington DC on revolutionizing the world of work: Today in Washington, DC, I am working with Steve Denning, author of The Leaders' Guide to Radical Management. We are leading a collaborative workshop that portends the coming revolution in the workplace, Revolutionizing the World of Work (tweeting now at #RevWork). Steve's keynote this morning highlighted what successful companies (Apple,[...] read »
Remember when it was big news (in the CRM world, that is) when Salesforce.com would release its Winter 0’ whatever update? Take it from me, several years ago a quarterly release was big news. Salesforce.com was/is a trailblazer and whatever it unveiled was awaited with baited breath. read »
Young & Rubicam has been one of the brightest stars on Madison Avenue. David Ogilvy once remarked that Raymond Rubicam, the agency's founder, was the single most important influence in his advertising career. In the 1970's the agency, which led the first "creative revolution", grew so fast that it became the second largest agency in the world. But the last decade saw a reversal of fortune - the agency lost many of its bedrock accounts like Kraft, Met Life, Dr. Pepper, Chevron and most of Dell[...] read »
Why is hierarchical bureaucracy still so pervasive? Thousands of business books and articles are published each year. Many of them are full of promising ideas for improving management. So why does hierarchical bureaucracy appear to be as strong as ever in Fortune 500 companies and in government? read »
Every potential partnership has two customers and every successful partnership delights them both. read »
In most folktales, when a young man sets off to rescue the princess and become the king, one of the first tests of his mettle involves generosity. An old woman asks that he share his meager meal, or a beggar pleads for a coin. The young man's older brothers have already refused this request, and bad things have invariably happened to them. read »
Acceptance of social media, especially Facebook, runs similar to the political spectrum. There are extremists on both sides: those who live on Facebook and those who want nothing to do with it. I, along with the rest of the American public, sit somewhere in the middle. There a big rush in the corporate techie space to get everything on to a social media platform like Facebook, from internal communication to job postings. Most of them are uncomfortable fits, but I think there is one area that does[...] read »
Troubled Sears wants state and local tax subsidies read »
