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Printer-friendly version (PDF) Prior to the financial crisis of the last decade I had a client that timed his bank’s sale as well as any company I had ever worked…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Prior to the financial crisis of the last decade I had a client that timed his bank’s sale as well as any company I had ever worked…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) SELF-INDUGENCE ALERT! February marks the 20-year anniversary for my firm, FIC. I might have ignored it, but for the many and well appreciated Linked-In prompted congratulations I…
Restoring the ‘fun’ in banking requires bringing back appropriate risk taking and innovation. Recently, I ran into a former colleague who was bemoaning that he had been fired. His misfortune…
Restaurar la “diversión” en la banca requiere traer devuelta el tomar riesgos apropiadamente e innovar. Recientemente, me topé con un antiguo colega que lamentaba haber sido despedido. Su mala fortuna…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Bankers seem to spend the first few weeks of each New Year meeting internally to discuss the prior year’s numbers and kick off sales programs for the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) We do not expect or want our bankers to be like the artists and writers of Charlie Hebdo. Their work was often profane, angry, anarchistic, and sometimes…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) The dictionary definition of homogenize includes “to change something so that its parts are the same or similar.” Increasingly, prodded by regulators and internal compliance officers, advised…
Last time, in response to a friend’s comment, I wrote about when, for many, banking stopped being fun. That column received more responses than any other I have written over…
Last night at my initial cocktail party of the pre-Christmas season, I ran into a former colleague who was bemoaning that after 24 years at a highly prominent Pharma company,…
Years ago, I was trying to set up a meeting with the head of a small business group at a top five bank. When we spoke by phone, he said…