Finance Topic

Now I think I know what people mean about being authentic. A couple of days ago I received an email from a guy who posted his comment in the Project Control group of LinkedIn. On the surface of it, he was directing us to a “mystery” blogger who was writing about his ‘day in the…

Carl Icahn is back in the news again; he’s agitating Apple to buy back shares as a way of increasing shareholder values. But why should Apple give money to people like him who are providing nothing of value to the company? All Icahn and his ilk are doing is sucking money out of corporations. Instead, that…

Dashboard driving: running your business solely on the numbers without considering your long-term prospects or intangibles. Do you drive your car solely by looking at the dashboard, measuring your speed and fuel usage? Or do you mostly drive by looking out the window to see where you are and where you are going and possibly…

“No, they hand key that in”…. “No, that is manually input.” “No, that’s also keyed in.” I was going over the result of the testing with my boss and as I went through each section, she kept asking how the field folks pull in the data. Each time I had to say that it was…

And so the drumbeat of articles continue. There has been a couple of interesting articles but I’m going to focus on the one about the psychological research on people’s viewpoint on CEO pay. This article came from HBR.org, through Pulse/LinkedIn, titled “CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World”, dated…