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He Couldn’t Jump. He Could Lead.

The NBA is a league of 7-foot stars and 10-foot egos. This year the championship was won by a team with neither. The New York Knicks won the title for the first time in 53 years, and there is a lesson in the victory for every business person in the

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Pools of Money

We hear the term “private equity” tossed around every day in business. The Bloomberg ticker tells us about the giants that often go by initials

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Equal Opportunity?

I have been thinking a lot about whether America has become hopelessly stratified by wealth, race, education and all sorts of barriers that make it

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Let Me Work

I’m on vacation in the Bay Area and I’m working. Today it’s a blog, business calls, thinking about options for TMW and Graff-Pinkert. I’m in

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Respect the Streak

Baseball fans love statistics because they tend to make the daily events seem more rational and orderly. We humans crave order and predictability, even when

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