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Tag Archives: Wall Street
Is the tech revolution helping or replacing the front-line worker?
I have noticed some trends in recent statements about the future of work that I want to explore with this post. The middle manager is now the front-line worker and is soon to be replaced. The first is that the future technological work … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, culture, information management, management, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Frontline, Knowledge Management, Knowledge worker, Social work, technology, Wall Street, Work
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Are there Good Samaritans on Wall Street if you can be taken for 9 Billion
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
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Thoughts on Managing America’s renewal: educating ourselves to live within our means.
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
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Risk cannot be conquered: Has Wall Street forgotten Machiavelli’s lessons?
In chapter 25 of Machiavelli’s Prince, we see the problem of fortune and the challenge it presents to a prince. In this instance, we are using fortune to refer to risk. The two are not exactly the same so one … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, coruption, culture, management, renewal
Tagged #ows, environment, Hedge fund, hedge fund managers, Hurricane Katrina, Niccolò Machiavelli, politics, Prince, Wall Street
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