Mr. Niall Ferguson (2010APR23 Wall Street Journal) sums up the U.S. post-crisis financial regulation as a “trilemma” that could optimize to any two of three, but not all three: (a) efficient capital markets; (b) no bailouts to big banks; or (c) a depression-free economy.  ( Mr. Ferguson further  warns against a delusional proposition that bigger [...]

Where does innovative venturing come from?

Leadership in a complex environment does not have to be complex itself. It cannot be complex. Here’s a model you can put in your backpocket.

The complexity and the scale of interactions in an electronically enabled global economy, is a djinii beyond putting back into the box.

Avaya maven Christian von Reventlow gave us a heads-up on Eric Qualman’s new book on “socialnomics”, whose stats should create a knot in your stomach

Relevance of stepping back for context and perspective in negotiations and everyday work situations.

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?

“The more parts there are, the more things to go wrong,” my Dad muttered, as he slid out from underneath his ’57 Chevy.  It was the same exact metallic salmon color as the one he had before that, down to the plastic-covered bench seats. Actually, every Sunday afternoon, I think he’d just find something on [...]

Just saying you have an open door doesn’t make it so. How do you get your people to tell you what you may not even know to ask?

“…(Finkelstein et al.’s: Think Again) itself, unfortunately , does not seem to come up with great new ideas ….and in fact the people who made-off (sorry, couldn’t resist) with Other People’s Money were, in fact, too effective in making their decisions and ingenious with their execution…