Debt Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Today’s online newspapers have real drawbacks. First, they don’t let you to scan all the news. Second, all too often important articles in the print edition never make it to the paper’s website. And let’s not forget how fewer and fewer people are getting real newspapers delivered these day. As a result, there is a [...]
Risk, Character & New Year Resolutions
It’s January 2010. Welcome to the second decade of the third millennium! To those of you who made New Year resolutions this year, good wishes and good luck achieving your goals. Given that only two weeks has passed since we sang Auld Lang Syne, I trust you still are keeping diligently to all the pledges [...]
Matt Barrett & the CEO Mindset
After a very distinguished and sometimes controversial long career in international financial services, Matt Barrett finally retired three years ago. That’s when he stepped down from being Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC after having been a long serving CEO of both Barclays in the UK and Bank of Montreal in Canada. Here are some career [...]
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