Entries entered in '2007'

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How to Name Your Baby

As most parents know instinctively, there is a curious magic in names. Call your little on Elmer, and he will be less likely to succeed than if you plunge in with Charlemagne or Napoleon…Excerpted from John Train’s Most Remarkable Names, 1985.

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Would You Make a Good Company Director?

Russell Reynolds, probably the world’s best-known recruiter of directors of large corporations, looks for basic intelligence, common sense, good character, and collegiality. The director you want is enthusiastic, thoughtful and pleasant to have around.

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The Subprime Mess

The current catastrophe illustrates several traps and delusions that come up frequently, even though they are fairly obvious… Enough so, indeed, that I have pointed them out in my books.

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Greek Gods and Hormones

The ancient Greeks associated emotions with deities. Today we explain the same emotions by the effect of hormonal and other systems that have developed over millions of years to help us adapt to our environment.

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What About the Stock Market?

Pre-election years are usually good for the stock market. The defending president pumps oxygen into the system to produce a rosy glow as the voters go to the polls. That’s politics though, not economics.

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An Essential Move in Afghanistan

The Afghan economy is at a dangerous crossroads. A strong market economy could very well survive without democracy in Afghanistan, but the fledgling democracy in Kabul stands little chance without a vigorous economy.

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Glimpses of Vietnam

Going for a stroll in Saigon at either end of a business day is like walking along the bank of a furiously rushing torrent: a torrent of motorcycles, tens of thousands of them, hurtling past. Since much of the city has no traffic lights, you wait and hope for a break in the flow, which may not happen.

All this is something of a metaphor for Vietnam in general: everything is pervaded by hustle, bustle and optimism; by enthusiastic movement.

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