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“He has an amazing sense of risk,” says his former colleague at Smith Barney, Bob Lessin, currently vice chairman of investment bank Jeffries & Company. “He understands it intuitively better than anyone alive, so he doesn’t do stupid things. The industry has a recent history of dramatically mis-pricing risk relative to return. Jamie never fell
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So they build up permanent departments staffed by fungible people in permanent slots.
Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business
money and power as possible, or will the pursuit corrupt
Zeke Faux • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
In all of his talks, Tierney questions this conventional wisdom, arguing that there is bad overhead (say, paying for swank office space) and good overhead (such as investing in technology to track results). Tierney counsels philanthropists not to place restrictions on how their donation can be spent (Sheryl Sandberg, for one, heeded this sage advic
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Second: The franchise blinders harden
Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
The Disruptors' Feast: How to avoid being devoured in today's rapidly changing global economy
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economy, legal issues were making the business model look riskier.
Sarah Kessler • Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work
In 1973 the CEOs of large corporations earned thirty-five times as much as the average worker; now they earn two hundred times as much.
Bill McKibben • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
this latter variable is a significant force in influencing the economics of the firm, its organizational structure, and its positioning in the client and people markets.