It goes without saying that technology has been an enormous boon to society. But for the past decade or so Silicon Valley’s unicorn culture has spawned a massively overhyped and stubbornly persistent private equity bubble. I doubt that’s news to any of you. But even though the public markets are[…] Read On
After watching our favorite new show (new to us, anyway), Bad Girls, the wife puts on Fox News. I pour us some more chardonnay before heading down to the dungeon to work. On my way out, I catch a clip of a doctor talking coronavirus with Shannon Bream. I’m instantly[…] Read On
Even people who don’t get marketing or think it’s a load of BS still think they’re experts. The engineers, the IT guy, the CEO—I bet half the people you work with think they know more about what customers want than the customers do. Everybody’s a focus group of one. Maybe[…] Read On
Michael Avenatti. Elizabeth Holmes. Bernie Madoff. Jeff Skilling. Bernie Ebbers. John Rigas. Dennis Kozlowski. Walter Forbes. Joseph Nacchio. Raj Rajaratnam. What do all these names have in common? With the exception of Holmes (criminal trial this summer) they’ve all been convicted of high-dollar (9 or 10 figure) financial crimes including[…] Read On
Publicly eviscerating a political rival never looks good. It looks even worse if you’re wrong. ICYMI, Long-time democratic strategist and LSU fanatic James Carville has been popping his cork over just how far left his party has gone. Mostly he’s afraid that socialist policies will cede the 2020 election to[…] Read On
Few things in life are as black and white as winning and losing. In sports you either add one to the win column or the loss column. Simple. When you’re courting a customer, you end up winning or losing the deal. You know that because you either get paid to[…] Read On
After Election Day 2016 it was #NotMyPresident. Then came #Resist, #NeverTrump, #RussianCollusion, #MuellerReport and #Impeachment. Now it’s #RejectTheCoverup and #Impeached4Life. I’m sure I’ve missed a few hundred hashtags in between. Is anyone else sensing a trend? You know how doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different[…] Read On