The Bell Curve
When it comes to being a successful CEO, intelligence is overrated.
Pay Your Rank And File Fairly.
How often have you used redundancies such as beck and call, assault and battery, safe and sound, and first and foremost to emphasize a point? I have been accused of being the apostle of the repetitive. I've hemmed and hawed my way through the rack and ...
If You Don't Know, Why Don't You Just Say So?
My wife was reading a copy of The Wall Street Journal the other day. She seemed perplexed. Suddenly she turned to me and asked, "What makes the market go up and down?" "All kinds of information," I replied condescendingly. "Commodity price fluctuations. ...
Micromanagement Leads To Mismanagement
In my career I have had to tolerate a chief executive who was a bully. I was forced to accommodate a chief executive who was a caretaker. I had to adjust to a chief executive with a big ego. I had to abide a chief executive who took credit for my ideas. ...
What Wins Wars . . . And Markets
Sun-tzu, the great Chinese military strategist, wrote The Art of War during the warring-states period between 480 and 221 B.C. It was a significant period in history, rich with new ideas (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) as well as fierce aggression ...
People Who Cheat At Golf Cheat In Business
American golf in its early days was played almost exclusively by people born with silver spoons in their mouths. Golf was considered a gentlemans game, rigidly governed by The Rules of the Game, a set of rules so comprehensive, so specific, and so ...
Brutal Bosses From Hell
In Brutal Bosses and Their Prey (1996, Riverhead Books), Harvey Hornstein identifies six variations on Simon Legree: Conquerors (classic schoolyard bullies) -- Theyre concerned with power. Bludgeon you with words. Make you feel small. Treat you like ...
Too Smart, Too Late About Your Health-care Costs?
In his book Everything Has Its Price (1995, Simon & Schuster), Richard E. Donley has a chapter titled "The Doctor's Bill." It lists the following costs of medical services: 30-day treatment for alcohol and drug dependency: $12,000. 13-day ...
