Archive for June, 2009

Frames and Mirrors

Friday, June 5th, 2009

In 1987 few of us saw the proliferation of programmed trading vibrating into a collapse. Should we have seen in 2007 how cantilevered derivatives were quickly straining beyond load limits and quickly into a global complexity?

There is a delicate art to a consulting job.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

The author recounts the tragedy of truth-telling in consulting.

The analyst’s acuity. A humorist’s irony. Hearing the silence between the notes. Seeing both object and space, in minimalist and in Japanese art. Holding to the values beyond conflicting goals; reaching for the larger frame beyond the crisis. Spotting the patterns, navigating the chaos. How to think, how to manage.

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