The great Alan Webber, of Fast Company fame and now a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors, called to ask my opinion of Facebook’s IPO news. In short, I said, “It’s nice to have a liquidity event that will show just how rich Mark Zuckerberg is. But Facebook doesn’t really need the money.” Read the whole article here. In it, Webber asks some important questions about the future of IPOs.
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A Fun Conversation
Over the weekend, Arianna Huffington mentioned Fixing the Game on CNN’s Your Money with Ali Velshi. I’m a fan of Arianna’s (who also graciously provided a blurb for the Fixing cover), and her recommendation inspired a few new articles for Huffington Post.
Check out the articles on executive compensation, the life and lot of the CEO and, of course, NFL betting. Looks like they’ve started a great discussion in the comments.
Thinkers 50
I was very gratified tonight to be named the 6th top management thinker in the world in London tonight at the Thinkers50 awards ceremony. It was nice to be squeezed in between one of my beloved mentors, Mike Porter at #5, and Marshall Goldsmith, perhaps the classiest guy in our whole industry at #7.
I was shortlisted for the Breakthrough Idea Award for Integrative Thinking and for the Book Award for Fixing the Game. I didn’t win either, but was pleased to see my Harvard College classmate Pankaj Ghemawat win the book prize for World 3.0.
All in all, it was a lovely evening. Thanks to Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, the architects of the Thinkers50.
Writing up a Storm
I have been writing up a storm these days – and not keeping up this blog enough.
You might want to take a look at these recent posts:
An obituary for Steve Jobs in the Globe and Mail;
A rant about bank CEO compensation in Reuters;
Thoughts about how to get companies to think more long term on my HBR blog;
Some advice for CEO’s on creating societal value on my HBR blog.
I hope you find these enjoyable.
Best,
Roger
Read the Book that Jeff Immelt Just Read!
GE Chairman Jeff Immelt just gave a lengthy interview to the Swedish publication Dagens Industri during which he was asked: What is the last book you have read? Bless him! His answer was Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL. It is nice to have the GE Chairman as a fan!
The article is entitled ‘GE-chefen målar framtiden i grönt’ (or GE Boss Paints the Future in Green) by Maria Ottoson, published July 6. It is behind a paywall so I don’t have a url (at least yet). But a cleverer surfer can probably get it.
Cheers
Roger
Other Recent Blog Entries:
- Shout-out by Adi Ignatius (July 4, 2011)
- Shout-out by Dan Pink (June 28, 2011)
- Fixing the Game Fun in New York (June 8, 2011)
- 52nd Annual McKinsey Award (April 24, 2011)
- Must Read: Artistry Unleashed (December 6, 2010)