When Bosses Collude Against Their Talent

October 20, 2010

Back in the 1980s, Major League Baseball owners were unhappy about having to match other teams’ lucrative offers to free-agent stars. They made what they thought was a gentleman’s agreement to shut down the talent market. It worked, though only for awhile. There were 62 free agents after the 1985 season. Only four changed teams. There was a similarly peculiar lack of demand for top-tier players following the 1986 and …

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Controlling Your Company’s Destiny

July 7, 2010

One Tuesday night a few weeks ago, a janitor vacuuming in our computer room accidentally unplugged a cable, cutting off power to three of our firm’s servers and damaging some hardware. Coincidentally, the same night, a power outage at Intuit knocked out that company’s primary and backup website systems. Approximately 300,000 businesses that use Web-based products such as Intuit Online Payroll, Quicken Online, QuickBooks Online, TurboTax and QuickBase were left …

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