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Thank goodness it’s Friday, the day no one will ever read about this story, ever
Friday has always almost been the common day for letting people go. Kevin Hallock, Cornell University People get fired on Friday more than any other day (pdf; the chart above is from page 67)—perhaps...
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Consultant, consult thyself: Why Gaddafi’s former spin doctor, the Monitor...
It’s not very reassuring when a management consulting company can’t even pay its own rent. The Monitor Group, a highly prestigious American consulting firm until it admitted in 2011 to being Moamar...
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What Skyfall’s blockbuster ticket sales tell us about the global movie market
Skyfall, the 23rd movie in the James Bond movie franchise, has thus far grossed $518 million worldwide just 22 days after its Oct. 23 world premiere in the UK. That’s almost as much as the previous...
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Men sleeping with junior colleagues is old news, but boards urgently outing...
This item has been corrected. Is the era of “Mad Men” over at last? Affairs between executives and subordinates have always been around, but for some reason, this has been the year of punishment and...
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Petraeus’s new gig: secretary of defense in “Call of Duty”
What “Secretary of Defense” David Petraeus looks like in 2025… in CGI. Activision/ screen shot General David Petraeus—as in, that David Petraeus—has a cameo role in the highly-anticipated video game...
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Eton: Why James Bond’s and David Cameron’s prep school still makes leaders
Arthur Wellesley, the First Duke of Wellington, upon defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, famously said, “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” By which he meant that Eton...
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Women senators hit the porcelain ceiling as a bill for more bathrooms circles...
Not enough. PRNewsFoto/Brondell Following the Nov. 6 US elections, there are now an unprecedented 20 women in the Senate, up from 17. This has led to what you might call a good problem: There aren’t...
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What family firms can learn from Samsung’s internal battle and its two...
One hand’s not talking to the other. The ongoing, highly acrimonious feud within the Lee family, which runs the Samsung empire, has gotten so out of control that the factions could not bear the...
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What the business traveler knows: You can be plenty thankful at a table for one
International business travelers often have to eat alone. This can be especially annoying during the holiday season, when the boughs of holly in the lobby make it that much harder for you to try to...
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Formula One, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except...
Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel, of Germany, celebrates after the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo The Formula One contestant list is a veritable multinational hodgepodge:...
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“Twitter is part of my job,” and other things managers need to know about...
If anything sums up how weird these times are for young people economically and otherwise, it’s the fact that several of this year’s commencement speeches to newly graduating American university...
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The biggest royal event in France since Versailles: Burger King is coming back
Tourists at a Paris Burger King in 1997, the year the franchise left France. AP PHOTO/Michel Euler After being deposed 15 years ago, the King is back in France. Burger King, in partnership with the...
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New philanthropic trend: “Give when you’re nearly dead” is dead
Young philanthropists John and Laura Arnold The Bridgespan Group/ screenshot It used to be that a prosperous executive, particularly one prominent in the community, would join the board of a...
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Inside the epic, all-night, Goldman Sachs scavenger hunt
One Saturday evening last fall, some 180 Goldman Sachs employees assembled at a dock along the East River of Manhattan, divided into 20 teams. Standing on a platform overlooking the crowd was Mat...
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Charlie Hebdo’s gross out cartoons are an ancient French tradition worth...
Thought Leader Handbook, Rule 1: After disaster, lie in wait. Wait until the “What hath God wrought” phase is over, usually about 12 hours. Rule 2: Take either the stance that the victims (in this...
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