Category Archives: Strategy and the Big Picture
A lesson in business evolution
One of the benefits of living longer is you get to see patterns that you couldn’t have seen in less time, because the pattern frequency was on a time scale longer than your span on the planet to that point. … Continue reading
Long-term investing: the next 10 minutes…
It used to be that “institutional” investors were the paragons of long-term investing. The entities included in that title ranged from pension funds (defined benefit), to custodians and money managers of 401(k) plans (defined contribution), to insurance companies and others. … Continue reading
The 83 secret steps to success
Before you complain about false advertising, let me assure you that there are not eighty-three steps to entrepreneurial success. But if I was a relatively famous individual, and I published a book with this title, you might be tempted to … Continue reading
Sustainability as an investment craze?
In his book, “Natural Capitalism”, Paul Hawken (co-founder of Smith and Hawken, the wildly successful catalog specialty retailer of gardeners’ dreams), laid out a very compelling case for what has come to be known as the “triple bottom line”. The … Continue reading