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...leadership alone. Gardner uses British Petroleum as a prime example: CEO John Browne turned the oil giant around by challenging frontline managers to solve existing problems and giving them time and consultants to create solutions. On the opposite side, Gardner says, John Chambers of Cisco Systems couldn't convince investors that the dotcom boom was the "second industrial revolution" because he didn't keep tabs on business-cycle research. He also didn't acknowledge investor resistance to mind change, the strength of traditional business models. Critically, the book outlines ways to change the most important mind: your...
MUHLENKAMP: I am an investor but also an employer. If I'm making money, there are two good reasons I hire: to make more money and to save time. Companies have been cautious, but the patterns are familiar. Jobs will be back...
Although the scorecard on the 2003 earnings season is nearly full, investors should be careful about jumping into a stock--or dumping it--solely on the basis of a hit or miss in the last quarter. Certainly, investor confidence has been buoyed by a resurgence in profits. Corporate earnings shot up about 28% in the fourth quarter of 2003 and climbed 18% for the entire year, according to Thomson First Call...
When Bush was failing as an investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...
...main objective of any investor who’s in there for the long term is to get maximum return with as little risk as possible,” Scudder said. “The way the Harvard endowment has been run, that has been its achievement...