Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2014

And your New Year’s Eve plans are in the way of next year’s success. I wrote 1,000 words a week and documented hundreds of ideas. The balance of this week and next will be spent (actually invested) by thinking about, doing, and documenting the following: Making one plan to make a longtime dream a reality. My results?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. But Archive.org kept a copy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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