Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner was interviewed by the WSJ. The interview included an excerpt about the auto industry. I thought his comments on turnarounds was pretty interesting. He mentioned that when you're trying to turnaround a company you have to move quickly. You can't take a decade to slowly turn an organization around - you have to move with speed. He also comments on how important it is to deal with the culture change necessary to make that turnaround strategy really work (which is probably the most difficult thing to change in a company). The easy part is coming up with the strategy and knowing what to do. Getting it done and changing behavior is the hard part.
I found this opinion piece ( Democrats aren't innocent bystanders ) interesting on how both Democrats and Republicans share responsibility for polarizing the electorate and undermining some of its faith in democracy. It references two other posts that were pretty good as well: The Disease of Delegitimization The Weimarization of the American Republic The second article is really long and heavy on history. But given all of the comparisons people make between the current times and those of post-WWI Germany, I found it interesting to dive in to understand where the comparisons are coming from and how close we really are. The short answer is that we aren't that close (phew). Seems like post-WWI Germany was incredibly fragile. This was a good excerpt that summarized it: So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boo...
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