Month: June 2010

With gratitude to "LLL" who commented on my post from yesterday, the suggestion was made that with the upcoming dean hiring season almost upon us, we might like to think…

 As I noted in my last post, On Warning Signs: You Can’t Get There From Here, a failure to inquire into unusual growth in profits, risk, or trading volume is…

... when the Apple sales clerk, who is training you and your wife on your new computer, says:"I'm not familiar with Corel Word Perfect.  What is that?"This transition (lifelong Microsoft…

I guess we can blame last year's dean search for my sometime obsession with management books, but this weekend I read another one:  Stephen Young's Micromessaging:  Why Great Leadership is…

 In my last post on this topic, Rogues Versus Scapegoats, I argued that, while Kerviel is hardly the “pawn for profit” his lawyers contend, Société Générale bears ultimate responsibility for…

I spent my entire career (more than twenty years) with one team.Although I finished my career with over 2,800 hits, I am probably best known for my defensive prowess, which…

 Creative financing from the world’s most indebted nation . . . Maybe Greece should try this.  From the FT: Stuck with the tricky job of making debt issued by the…

 I’ve blogged a few times already about the made-for-television Jerome Kerviel rogue trading trial that began on Tuesday in Paris (see the links to related posts below).  At issue is…

Okay, it's not law.  But for serious football fans, a USC bowl ban is  big news!

I've been reading some organizational behavior literature recently focused on team dynamics in the workplace, including Robert Sutton's book, The No Asshole Rule (2007).  One interesting take-away from this book…