Tag Archives: Business

Are there Good Samaritans on Wall Street if you can be taken for 9 Billion

Posted on July 5, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

When JP Morgan lost 9 billion dollars on a derivatives trade, many people saw it as the market functioning properly. What made the story interesting is the scale of the losses, 9 billion dollars at last estimate. Yet, the story … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, management | Tagged Business, derivatives, economy, Hedge fund, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, occupy-wall-street, Wall Street | 2 Comments

The Bureaucrat and the Banker: Bob Diamond’s downfall

Posted on July 4, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Bob Diamond is a shrewd, powerful, deal maker who does not understand bureaucratic politics. On Wall Street, or in the City, your word is your bond. If you cannot keep your word, you cannot do business. Lehman Brothers collapsed in … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Bank, Barclays, Bob Diamond, Business, current-events, economy, Lehman Brothers, London Interbank Offered Rate, politics, Treasury, Washington DC, White House | Comments Off

Three reasons why Bob Diamond will stay and lessons in crisis management

Posted on June 30, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

This blog post has been overtaken by events. Bob Diamond resigned on 3 July 2012. It is unlikely that the LIBOR scandal as described in the FSA report is going to be enough to remove Bob Diamond from Barclays. There … Continue reading →

Posted in leadership, management | Tagged Andrew Tyrie, Barclay, Bob Diamond, Business, current-events, Diamond, economy, Financial Services Authority, Lehman Brothers, London Interbank Offered Rate, politics, Royal Bank of Scotland | 1 Comment

Leadership is not a conversation

Posted on June 23, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Despite the claims of Groysberg and Slind at Harvard Business Review, leadership is not a conversation because staff do not listen. The staff do not listen because what is being presented as a “conversation” or a “dialogue” is instead a … Continue reading →

Posted in leadership, learning organisation, management, path dependency | Tagged Business, Communication, Conversation, Decision making, Harvard Business Review, leadership, management, Observer Effect, politics | 12 Comments

Thoughts on Managing America’s renewal: educating ourselves to live within our means.

Posted on June 20, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

The financial crisis has shown that the economic growth over the past 20 years in the United States has been based largely, but not exclusively, on personal and corporate debt. The debt dependency has weakened the fundamental financial systems within the … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, innovation, leadership, management, path dependency, renewal | Tagged Americans, Average Joe, Business, Credit, Federal Reserve System, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs, occupy-wall-street, politics, UBS, United States, Wall Street | Comments Off

Are online adverts being pushed so that we choose pay walls to avoid them?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

In the age of the internet and kindle, this sounds like a strange claim. Yet, I think the use of advertisements, links, pop-ups and other attention grabbing devices has reached the point where we are being conditioned to accept pay … Continue reading →

Posted in customer service, information management, knowledge worker, management | Tagged Advertising, Business, Facebook, Forbes, forbes magazine, Marc Rotenberg, Mark Zuckerberg, marketing, Media, pop ups, technology, Vanity Fair, Web page | Comments Off

The new renaissance paradigm: dream or nightmare for technological talent?

Posted on June 6, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Within the social media revolution an idea has developed that we are seeing a new Renaissance. The idea is that a New Renaissance Paradigm in which those who create content can avoid the middle man that traditionally help them to … Continue reading →

Posted in change, change managment, innovation, leadership, learning organisation | Tagged Apple, Business, Facebook, Google, Organization, Renaissance, social media, technology | 2 Comments

Why change Management is hard: sometimes you have to make the bricks

Posted on June 1, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

When people talk about change management, they often focus on large issues, like strategy, vision, and culture. All of these are important to setting the goals for the change management programme. Yet, what is often overlooked is the mechanics of … Continue reading →

Posted in change, change managment, creative destruction, culture, management, path dependency | Tagged brick wall, Business, change management, frontline workers, leadership, management, Masonry and Stone, Organizational Change, Wallpaper | Comments Off

Why people are going mobile? The web is too slow.

Posted on May 22, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

Just as video killed the radio star, advertisements have killed the web. People are going mobile for all the reasons why the web used to be good before the developers and advertisers got a hold of it. Back around 2000 … Continue reading →

Posted in change, culture, innovation, path dependency | Tagged Advertising, BBC, Business, Facebook, Google, Link bait, marketing, Social network, Web page, World Wide Web | 1 Comment

Good Corporate Citizen or Good Person: check your ethics at the door?

Posted on May 19, 2012 by lawrence serewicz

With the recent financial crisis hitting the world, there have been a several attempts to understand what went wrong with the system. A financial and economic system that delivered staggeringly good results and provided economic benefits to billions of people … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, management | Tagged Business, Consulting, corporate citizens, Corporate citizenship, Ethics, leadership, Lehman Brothers, management, Philosophy, politics, Research, unethical behaviour | 1 Comment