Preserving and Managing Family Wealth Increasingly a Woman’s Domain A recent Wealth Management.com story notes that, according to RBC Wealth Management’s Wealth Transfer Report 2017, the responsibility of managing and preserving family wealth is increasingly in the hands of women. Among the study’s most striking findings:
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Mellody Hobson Makes History It is with great pleasure that I congratulate Mellody Hobson on becoming the first African-American woman to chair the Economic Club of Chicago. Hobson joined the club some 20 years ago – at the time becoming one of its youngest members ever. The business and civic club announced Mellody’s appointment as
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Among the crop of new books on business and economics, some titles about behavioral economics and reform of US government institutions caught my eye.
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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do In light of all the recent discussion of mentors and sponsors, I found Harvard Business Review’s recent article, “Six Things Every Mentor Should Do,” enlightening. According to Vineet Chopra, MD and Sanjay Saint, MD – there are six things every mentor should consider:
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RAY DALIO The 5 Criteria for Success I recently watched Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater – the world’s largest hedge fund – speak with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Deal B%k at The New York Times. Dalio grew up in a middle class home, the only child of Italian-American parents. He began investing at the age
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Just before International Women’s Day on March 8, a second bronze statue appeared directly opposite the famous bronze bull on Wall Street. The four foot tall girl, hands on her hips, stands with a defiant gaze leveled at the bull. A plaque at the girl’s feet reads: “Know the power of women in leadership. She makes a
I recently came across an interesting article in The Harvard Business Review by Hal Gregerson, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center. In it, he draws connections between a photographer’s creative process and how leaders can learn from that process. It started me thinking: what insight can we glean from artists? There is plenty
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NEW LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE: Create the future workforce In a recent report by Accenture Strategy, Harnessing Revolution: Creating the Future Workforce, research indicates that as different generations enter and exit the workforce amidst a rapidly changing technological landscape, the very concept of work is being redefined. According to authors Ellyn Shook, Chief Leadership and Human Resources
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The first quarter of 2017 is just coming to a close but already gender diversity on boards seems to be a popular topic, cropping up in several studies and news articles. Here are some headlines that have caught my eye over the last few months:
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Depending on how you look at the millennial generation, they are either innovative and optimistic or entitled youth with outsized expectations. As with most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Millennials may have been more cosseted than past generations and they were not prepared for massive college debt, the recession, and subsequent jobs
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