Bailout: cause & effect

By rickColosimo / October 1, 2008 / Comments Off on Bailout: cause & effect

Larry Ribstein, who’s a law professor and pretty focused on corporate governance generally, just described the bailout in some pretty straightforward terms. WARNING: we are not typically focused on macroeconomics except in scenario planning. However, we see strong tendrils of the situation that are really about investor expectations, the efficiency of the market, and the…

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How to allocate risk you find in due diligence

By rickColosimo / September 21, 2008 /

We generally subscribe to the theory that commercial contracts are about allocation of risk in a transaction. Dealbook today writes about a clause in the Merrill Lynch / Bank of America merger agreement. Here’s the clause: “(c) No investigation by a party hereto or its representatives shall affect the representations and warranties of the other…

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Kennedy on action

By rickColosimo / August 24, 2008 / Comments Off on Kennedy on action

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” via. This expands on one of Mike’s favorite sayings to use with clients: “the unaimed arrow never misses.” We use it to help clients understand another Army maxim of failing to…

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Rethinking your workspace

By rickColosimo / June 24, 2008 / Comments Off on Rethinking your workspace

In this article, David Allen of GTD fame discusses the office hardware that supports his implementation of GTD. And by hardware, I don’t mean computers, I mean the aluminum, wood, and plastic contraptions and tools that populate our offices, that create the environmental backdrop for our workdays. We’ve come across a similar analysis of office…

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