“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. Continue reading
Day: November 26, 2011
Eurozone(1)
“DON’T blame the feckless Greeks for Europe’s looming economic catastrophe — blame the Germans. Continue reading
“Follow through”
S+B: You’re very big on finding mechanisms that take the mystique of executive leadership and turn it into a real-world exercise. For example, you always follow up meetings with letters. “Follow through” is another one of your essential behaviors. Continue reading
Eurozone(2)
” Europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour since World War Two. Continue reading
Titanic and the Parrot
The Titanic, on her maiden voyage, just set sail from the shores of England. 
It was the most magnificent ship ever built, and everybody is very excited. No expense has been spared – the vast dining rooms, casinos, hundreds of neatly groomed waiters and polite service staff, string quartets, the works.
Leadership Legacy
You won’t remember when you retire what you did in the first quarter….. or the third. Continue reading
If you keep on going the way you are, you will miss the road to the future
“The Wicklow Mountains lie outside Dublin, Ireland. It is an area of wild beauty, a place to which as an Irishman born near there, I return as often as I can. It is still a bare and lonely spot, with unmarked roads, and I still get lost. Once I stopped and asked the way. Continue reading
Federalism
There are five elements to federalism and we have talked about two: subsidiarity (responsibility at the lowest point) and the separation of functions at the center. But there are three more, of which perhaps the most important is interdependence. Continue reading
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