Category Archives: Business

The Warren Buffet Voice

Warren Buffett (b. 1930) speaks in a flat Omaha accent, nasal and a little reedy, higher than you might expect from a man his size. The voice carries no polish. He sounds like a Nebraska insurance man at a Rotary … Continue reading

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Decoding The Wharton Finance Department

Tenured full professors, the Department Chair, the Senior Vice Dean for Finance, the Academic Directors of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center, and the senior hiring-committee gatekeepers at the Wharton Finance Department do not … Continue reading

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The Immortality Business

Ernest Becker argued in The Denial of Death that human culture is, at its root, a mechanism for managing the terror of individual insignificance. We build religions, empires, and monuments because we cannot bear to accept that we will disappear. … Continue reading

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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for CEO Coaching Authority

CEO coaches and executive leadership coaches do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking transformational and performance languages that frame their claims as fidelity to executive excellence, loyalty to peak leadership, or responsibility for … Continue reading

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Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know – and What to Do About Them

Here are some highlights from this 2005 classic: * Many employees mistakenly believe the law will provide them with protection from retaliatory or unfounded job loss. In many of today’s workplaces, this is nothing but a false sense of security. … Continue reading

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War Dogs

Steve Sailer writes: War Dogs’ closest comparison is to Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. But Scorsese didn’t have the courage to make the ethnic angle explicit. In his memoir, embezzler Jordan Belfort had explained the animus that motivated … Continue reading

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