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Criticism On “The Intelligent Investor: Why Changing the CEO May Not Change the Company”
Business performance, over a long period of time to negate the impacts of various one time events, is all about leadership, then management, in that order. In the short term, 3-5 years, a new CEO won't have much of an impact outside of market forces, competitive missteps and some luck. In the longer term, good CEOs get their companies into the right businesses, create the right culture, Read More...
Some Thoughts On “What’s Wrong With America’s Job Engine?”
To David Henry:
My twin brother (now aged 48) has excellent leadership skills list in computer programming / database management. He was forced to train his Indian replacement, and then fired at age 46 after working 20 years at a major pharmaceutical company. (He did get some severance and unemployment.) It took him 18 months to find a job - a temporary consulting job. He had to leave his Read More...
My Analysis On “This Chaplain Is Protected By God—and by an Atheist”
Iit is nothing unusual for someone to take a prohibition in a specific instance and generalize it to a complete prohibition for all instances. So both are nominally correct as to the prohibition against tatoos as scripture references are frequently used, However, enlisted persons correcting, confronting, or contradicting officers is a most dangerous thing at best for them to do. Let the Chaplain's Read More...
A Commentary On “Jenkins: Blowouts Will Not Always Be Prevented”
Blowouts are relatively common, that is why the jobs pay so well. Risk- reward.
Using a single cased riser, not completing the grouting process of communication, not maintaining the blowout preventer, and poor field engineering decisions caused the well to blowout, sink the rig, and kill eleven men. If they had stopped the completion process upon the pressure test failure, they probably would Read More...
Views On “Obama Talked R&D With Apple’s Jobs, Facebook’s Zuckerberg”
The President has again demonstrated his interest in providing access to business leaders and his dedication to working with them to benefit America's working and middle-class. A person who rose from very modest means, Barack Obama knows the challenges facing families, unlike most of his predecessors. Quite a few of the technology leaders he met with share leaders born or made his understanding Read More...
Some Thoughts On “Review & Outlook: A Leadership Default”
No, I do not support any what career should i choose politician, that included both democrats and republicans. Both ideology of these career politicians should go, period.
Charles Rangle is in the congress for twice the amount of time of Boehner, 40 years, shouldn't he retired already?
Nancy Pelosi has been in the congress since 1987, that is more than 20 years of being in the congress.
John Read More...
Views On “Review & Outlook: Asia’s Mistrust of China”
This phenomenon where the adopter of a body language of men continue to preserve the sounds of the old language while the old language has since changed at the source is actually quite common. One example are the present day descendants of the Portuguese colonists who arrived in Malacca in 1511 - they speak a variety of Portuguese that is different from the modern Portuguese now spoken in Read More...
My Take On “Burt Folsom: Did FDR End the Depression?”
Thanks Suzanne for the comment. What would you have proposed in place of the stimulus and TARP. Should Bush have let the financial industry fail ? Should Obama have instructed the Fed to stand back and do nothing? The present policies seem to be working; jobs are coming back; the stock market recently passed 11,000; and TARP is being paid back with interest. It seems that the leaders (Republican Read More...
Commentary On “Faces of Justice”
Well Phil, you never imagined the DESIRE of the CIA, Military or Administration would not want to interrogate Bin Laden instead of imagining it was all record on hard disk, disk, dvd, etc. Guess we do not know the whole story, if they knew that. The Tap Tap now is being question as 1 Tap and then Another from a 2 seal and 2 Tap. Story is changing careers at 40 or the story tellers are changing Read More...
Analysis On “Episcopal Church Tensions Stirred”
The most interesting thing about this thread is the variety of relevances and irrelevances that folks come up with. Very revealing. But I'm with Sheryl Nelson when she points out that you don't need a Saviour if there is no sin, and everything you do is OK! The Episcopal Church can't be relevant to sinners, because if there is no sin, you can hardly expect to get forgiveness there. The Read More...