Publications
January 1, 2014
Weekly Report 14-01
PREDICTIONS FROM RAY KURZWEIL – inventor & futurist with a 30-year track record of accurate predictions, Director of Engineering at Google, and described by Inc. Magazine as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison”: (1) Within five years: Google will have created a system to read every document on the web and every book for meaning, then provide... Continue
December 22, 2013
Weekly Report 13-52
ON COMMON SENSE SAFETY: A quarter of annual road deaths “are now linked to phone use,” according to the Nat’l Safety Council. While driving, some 660,000 still hold a phone to their ear, and 170,000 still text messages – the principal cause of ‘carnage on the roads.’ Even with hands-free systems, “a deeper problem is the extra cognitive... Continue
December 15, 2013
Weekly Report 13-51
WALL STREET REGULATION MAY FINALLY BE COMING. After years of stalling, Federal agencies are now giving serious consideration to“stricter oversight” of the big banks – including restrictions on Proprietary Trading, Hedging, customer Market-Making, and Private Equity deals. The new regulations (“a toughened version of the Volcker Rule”) could cost the big banks over $60 billion in... Continue
December 8, 2013
Weekly Report 13-50
“MOST LEADERS, NO MATTER HOW EXPERIENCED, DO A POOR JOB of establishing clear, indisputable expectations of others. Then, because of lack of clarity, people may do their best, but it’s not exactly what was ‘hoped’ for and disappointment sets in.” Good delegation or assignment of an expectation involves: (1) Defining the deliverable – form, degree... Continue
December 6, 2013