Sunset or Sunrise?
David Brooks, in today’s New York Times, had a fascinating piece on politics, entitled, “The Two Moons.” The premise is that majority party is the sun and the minority party is the moon, reflecting the light from the majority. Except that, since 1996, there have have been two minority parties, with neither leading nor finding …
A Third Way?
On Sunday, Tom Friedman in The New York Times, had a piece, entitled, “Make Way for the Radical Center.” In this piece, he mentions a new group, funded (in part) by hedge fund money, that seeks to be an alternative to the current two-party system, that, he contends, has failed to be effective. Nothing new …
Words Can Work, Unless Diction Provides Extra Exercise
In a recent WSJ article, “A Word to Wall Street: ‘Plain English,’ Please,” Arthur Levitt, Chairman of SEC from 1993-2001, discusses the notion that financial disclosure today is about saying a lot in terms of volume of letters, words and pages, yet saying very little in terms of informing the reader – regardless of their …
WSJ: Students Struggle for Words
A recent Wall Street Journal article, 03.03.11, “Students Struggle For Words” reviews how business schools are adding writing classes and coaches with a backdrop of employer complaints, falling GMAT writing scores and rampant abuse of verbose language. It seems – to me – that a liberal arts background may be ground for resurgence, for finding …
It’s Tough Out There
I uncovered an interview that I tore out of Inc. in May 2010, which is an interview with the founder, Jeffrey Bussgang, of UPromise who’s now a venture capitalist (VC). In the article he describes the frequent misunderstanding between the entrepreneur, the VC and the other partners invested in the firm. To me this echoes …
