Publications
February 1, 2017
Weekly Report 17-06
STRATEGIC PLANNING TYPICALLY NEGLECTS ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC RISKS which, over the past decade, have accounted for 86% of significant losses in company Valuation, according to a study published in Harvard Business Review. Strategic RISKS involve “external conditions that threaten to challenge the logic of a Company’s strategy… and could potentially disrupt” the business. Those threats... Continue
January 27, 2017
Weekly Report 17-05
NEW YEAR, NEW PRESIDENT, NEW DIRECTION – BUT DO NOT BE MISLED by headlines of rosy ‘Recovery’ or imagine that the new Administration will be able to reset today’s economic malaise. To begin with, the 4.6% claimed Unemployment rate, like so much government data, is “arrantly fake… a compound lie, in that it ignores the... Continue
January 19, 2017
Weekly Report 17-04
“NO MATTER HOW IMPROBABLE, THE EVENT MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN is the opposite of whatever the Davos consensus is.” Davos, Switzerland has hosted the World Economic Forum for 40 years, a conference of high-power business, banking & political leaders who “have nurtured a broad consensus in favor of globalization and open markets. At its core... Continue
January 11, 2017
Weekly Report 17-03
“THE RELENTLESS MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY has brought us to a point where machines & software are not just outworking us, but starting to outthink us.” Tesla’s latest software enables a driver to see two cars ahead on the road and actually ‘predict’ an accident [see https://electrek.co/2016/12/27/], “software has started writing poetry, pop hits, sports stories... Continue
January 6, 2017