Tim Tebow and Aaron Hernandez: How Many Touchdowns to Go as Leaders?
OK full disclosure: I live in Gainesville, Florida, the home of the Gators, my office is a half-mile from the University of Florida and on weekends I hear nothing else but Gator talk. Unfortunately I don’t follow football. But of course you can’t live in Gator-land without knowing about Tim Tebow and Aaron Hernandez, local […]
Yahoo – Product Bling 1, Business Acumen 0
There’s been lots of talk about whether or not Yahoo can come back from the dead. Marissa Mayer is splashiferous and acquisitive. Yahoo has received kudos for some “new” products (Tumblr – an acquisition and Yahoo’s new email – just a better mouse-trap)) but revenues are going nowhere fast. Will she make it? Well we don’t have […]
Saving Microsoft and the Second Coming of Amazon
I guess you heard that Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months? Well, bully for him, why didn’t it happen sooner? We all know that Microsoft has slipped dramatically in value for almost his entire tenure So who’s next? What is the Great Succession of Microsoft? It isn’t easy to restore the fortunes […]
“Jobs” the Film: Can a Narcissistic Bully be a Good Leader?
I just went to see “Jobs” the film. A warning: the opening scenes are cringe-worthy and I almost walked out. It gets better after that although never great. But it’s pretty accurate in its view of Jobs. The view of the film is pretty much summed up by Jobs’ first and only real boss who […]
Does an MBA mean less profitability?
OK so I know this is heresy. An MBA is supposed to mean you are very sophisticated in business and of course you will make more profits right? So how come all the MBAs, quants, and Nobel laureates in economics and finance in Wall Street almost capsized the Western financial system in 2008? And LTCM […]
Is Innovation a form of Business Acumen?
The history of science is littered with the carcasses of things we found out in unexpected places. Such as Sir Alexander Fleming finding penicillin in a “failed” experimental dish consisting of mold that was thought to be an accident and of no use. Currently you might have heard of another example in the medical field; […]