Marriage,career,children – the big decisions in life can often be the hardest. Is there an optimal method for making a choice? And how do you factor in loss and regret?
What remains surprising is how often companies and chief executives fail to learn lessons from past crises even though corporate Australia is littered with them.
AMP’s management is convinced it has the plan to resuscitate the venerable brand’s fortunes,but multiple institutional investors want decisive action,including a further break-up of the company.
There are signs that Elon Musk is trying to restructure the mountain of high-cost debt he took on to acquire Twitter,with his own actions post-acquisition further undermining the platform’s already-shaky finances.
Businesses are putting the safety of their Ukraine-based workers first,while continuing to pay wages and pausing operations.
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One expert advises approaching the issue in a detached manner:“There’s a lot to be said for thinking about the problem like a scientist.”
The implications of the decision for Amazon aren’t yet clear but there will be significant interest in how hands-on Jeff Bezos turns out to be in his new role.
The study of economics has lost its way because economists have laboured for decades to make their social science more mathematical and thus more like a physical science.
Unlike computers working on algorithms,people are very good at coping with radical uncertainty. It’s amazing how often we get it right - and that’s not blind luck,economists say.
Radical honesty. Dispassionate sackings. “Sunshining” failure. Reed Hastings,the man who built the world’s most successful TV streaming service makes no apologies for Netflix’s extreme – some might say extremely odd – workplace culture.