You’d be forgiven for being at a loss with received wisdom: Gawker is “over” but a lightweight, who’s “too fond of vaporous abstractions“, is lauded as the great white hope? Except for GOP presidential candidate Huckabee, the nation is gripped by what knows what when concerning the NIE report on Iran. Time for a throwback to our fave subject - management research, which “no one seems to know much about”, according to FT’s management columnist Lucy Kellaway.
What do Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Charles Schwab, founder of the eponymous discount brokerage firm, and John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, have in common? According to professor Julie Logan at the Cass Business School in London, dyslexia is what catapults them into the entrepreneurial world. (more…)
“If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China.” A phrase that has been repeated so often that it has almost become a truism. Ironically, it’s rather appropriate for the blurb of a book whose author calls himself the world’s worst market timer.
That author is none other than Jim “China bull” Rogers. Back in January 2006, Rogers told the New York Times that China would “fully float its currency” in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing - a prediction that’s increasingly unlikely to materialize, according to received wisdom.
But the occasional shooting his mouth off apparently doesn’t deter many China enthusiasts from braving the cold for his autograph at the Barnes & Nobles in midtown Manhattan yesterday evening.
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