Best Blogs
General BusinessVistage Research and Insights: Webinars and articles for the C-Level and those who aspire to it. (Available to all, not just Members).Chief Executive Magazine: Great, short articles for CEOs.“No Mercy, No Malice”: Many want to be thought leaders; few are. Dr. Scott Galloway is. Thoughtful (no malice), researched commentary but without filters (no mercy).Take […]
Econ Recon:
The Road to 2%: The Fed has a dual mandate of full employment and price stability. The benchmark for the latter is a CPI annual increase of 2%. If so, we have a ways to go before inflation returns to a level where the Fed can seriously consider reducing short rates, or the market is ready to ease long […]
“Isn’t that Special?”
Half a Century of SNL: Lessons for EntrepreneursThe Original Cast of Saturday Night Live in 1975 (L to R: Chevy Chase, Larraine Newman, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, and Dan Ackroyd) Many would be entrepreneurs are looking for something truly new on which to build their enterprise. But often, success can be found […]
The Goal of the Goal
In Vistage groups, we often warn each other that the second worst thing that can happen to a company is success. The reason? Bill Gates once said, “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” When what made a business successful no longer works, it’s time for a turnaround, but […]
George Washington, Founding CEO
Weeks after being elected president, Abraham Lincoln soon had a country at war to lead and a nation to reunite. In today’s parlance, he might be thought of as a “turnaround CEO” attempting to save a failing country. George Washington, on the other hand might be thought of as a start-up genius. Historian Richard […]
Lincoln: Turnaround CEO
Monday is President’s Day, a holiday inspired by two presidents: one who for all practical purposes founded the country and another who saved it. It’s hard to imagine America without George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Vistage Chair and Speaker Greg Bustin has shared numerous lessons from history with Vistage Groups across the US. In his recent blog […]
Best Blogs
General BusinessVistage Research and Insights: Webinars and articles for the C-Level and those who aspire to it. (Available to all, not just Members).Chief Executive Magazine: Great, short articles for CEOs.“No Mercy, No Malice”: Many want to be thought leaders; few are. Dr. Scott Galloway is. Thoughtful (no malice), researched commentary but without filters (no mercy).Take […]
…and AI Fear
While many share Mr. Galloway’s optimism about DeepSeek as set forth in the above post, the power and cost effectiveness of DeepSeek is not without risk. Vistage speaker and IT security expert Mike Foster warns that “While their technical achievements are remarkable, government agencies worldwide and many companies are restricting or banning using DeepSeek AI, citing privacy […]
AI Hope…
Just after the inauguration, tech giants were touting a $ 500 billion American AI initiation. Soon thereafter, a Chinese startup DeepSeek, unveiled AI capacity trained for only $5 million and as good or better than the OpenAI’s ChatGPT which cost $100 million to train. (If you’re looking for analogy, Henry Ford’s assembly line drove down costs so […]
Econ Recon:
Upside and Down: The January employment report is out and at first glance the economy turned in a decent result as far as jobs are concerned, but economist Brian Wesbury notes that while “The job market continued to expand at a moderate pace in January, but there were major revisions to prior reports that have a heavy […]