The Same Private Equity Playbook, One Industry After Another
Executives who built great businesses, explaining how they were pressured to dismantle what made those businesses great.
Tag: Economics
Economics decides which books get written, published, and read, whatever the artistic merits. These articles cover the economics of writing: publishing money, author income, and the market forces every working writer lives inside.
Authority Through AuthorshipEconomic and Class Echo Chambers – When the Country You Live In Is Invisible
In 2011 researchers asked over 5,000 Americans how wealth is distributed. They guessed the top 20 percent owned 59 percent; the real figure was 84. They guessed the bottom 40 percent held 9 percent; the real figure was 0.3. An…
AudiobookWhy Used Books Cost Nothing: The Economics of Book Pricing
A car loses half its value leaving the lot; a book loses 90 percent before you finish the first chapter. Last week a $32.99 hardcover sat three aisles over, used, for $4.95, identical words, a fraction of the price. It…
Authority Through AuthorshipJoe Rockey: The Coming Recession Is About People, Not Economics
Joe Rockey returns to Leaders and Their Stories to argue the next recession is a human problem, not an economic one: disengagement over economics, earned benefits over participation trophies, and why caring about people, not cutting AI, is the real…
Career StoryFrom IT Leader to Storyteller: The Boss Certified Insane and the Gig Economy Playbook | Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Episode 220
The October 26, 2023 episode: the first disk defragmenter, SCADA still running on VAX/VMS, 1980s phone-card fraud profiling, phone phreaks, the boss with an insanity certificate and the armed-guard firing day, John Shields and Dan Bane, customer-free digital transformation, the…