Category Archives: Strategy and the Big Picture
“Free” shouldn’t be
Sitting around the massive ash conference table were over thirty people who represented, and I am not exaggerating, a millennium of experience and knowledge. At least a thousand years of practical, priceless information. Free for the asking. The instant question … Continue reading
High fidelity board decisions
A thousand families. When I think of Chieftan Corporation, and the role I played as Chairman of that company, that’s what I think of. If you apply the typical family size of about four people, that’s four thousand individuals. And … Continue reading
Asleep on the bridge
As a group, Americans are not known for planning ahead. We have had a negative savings rate in this country for many years, until the Great Recession demanded we rethink our profligate ways. We’re borrowing against our futures as a … Continue reading
From cowrie shells to debit cards
Somewhere between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, humans began domesticating cattle and cultivating crops, representing the birth of agriculture and by most scholars’ accounts, the beginning of the concept of money. That concept is essentially that we all agree to … Continue reading