Boone Pickens this morning had it right: Weak leadership is at the core of the current financial crises. But what does that mean? How could it be different? Although no one factor is involved, a key characteristic of leadership, especially during a crises, is the ability to communicate well. I feel badly for […]
Month: September 2008
The Financial Crises: Stop Cursing the Jerks on Wall St. and Shimmy Up the Mast
Two height-terrified novice sailors hoisted me, pirate style, with a knife in my teeth, three stories up in the air. I, who couldn’t even qualify as a novice sailor, clung to the top of a swaying mast on the open seas to cut loose a tangled rope, rescuing a sailboat stranded 500 yards […]
Hitting 100
You’re probably thinking, who cares; since most brains will probably be more like scrambled green eggs than the sharp thinking machines of a 40-year old. That may be true for some of us, but not for my maternal grandmother Jeanette McKenzie McCormack who reached 100 on September 21. We can learn a few things from her. At 11, […]
McCain, Sarah Palin, + Iowa Electronic Markets
High in the mountains of Vail, Colorado, where I recently was celebrating Labor Day, it seemed that even the bears were buzzing about McCain’s ace move in selecting outlander Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Talk about a shock. Frankly, I was wondering if he had a chance in hell of being a contender until he made this […]