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Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Howie, inside Morgan Stanley, would lose $9 billion on a single mortgage trade, and remain essentially unknown, without anyone beyond a small circle inside Morgan Stanley ever hearing about what he’d done, or why.
Michael Lewis • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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John McMahon • The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO
imagine that Joe Sixpack offered to sell you a CDS on your $320,000 loan to your friend for $1,600 a year for five years. Joe is doing well, has a million-dollar house with no debt, and is therefore “good for the money.” Happy with $1,600 a year in extra income, Joe continues to sell CDSs on residential mortgages. Unregulated, he sells a thousand j
... See moreEdward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
Ed’s mission was to work himself out of a job.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
He was silent for an agent’s lifetime.
Leo Marks • Between Silk and Cyanide
Patrick Johnson
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