It's not so much what a young manager experiences in his or her first job as the take-away lessons in leadership. Geoff Finch recalls on-the-job learning about following, leading and becoming a leader.
What is a worker's responsibility to provide for his family? Is church work a higher calling than, say, education or finance or plumbing? Geoff Finch wrestles with these questions and a whole lot more.
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InsideWork's Geoff Finch is headed for some presentations to the finance ministers of a couple of countries that only a few years ago were dedicated socialist regimes. His underlying message to them was going to be that a free market/private enterprise system is a better model than a centrally planned and publicly operated economy. Now he's not so sure he should cite the shining example of the US-style private markets to support his thesis. So what does he present as a good working model?
Geoff Finch responds to images and sound bites from a special service called "A Hybrid Hope" at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan on December 7, 2008 with his own mix of compassion, confusion and guarded hope for the future of auto workers in the U.S.
I have one teenage son still living at home. We were having an after dinner chat last night about politics and “the system.” My rant was that none of the current batch of politicians is even talking about Social Security any more because it’s too embarrassing!
Former Morgan Stanley chief, Phillip Purcell, identifies five lessons bankers must relearn in the 21st Century [the supremacy of profits over revenues, compensation based on sustained results; leverage cuts both ways; diversification; risk management as a business culture]. Geoff Finch describes two more...
Geoff Finch, InsideWork's financial expert, returns from doing business in Rwanda. What he experienced there is nothing short of hope for the emergence of a new African economy.
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InsideWork's Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton's, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.
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David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith's great work by a similar name down to the present day.
The miracle we celebrate on Easter is the judgement after human judgement; the overturned verdict that transforms an earthshaking perversion of justice into the greatest good this world has ever seen.
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