Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
It’s the time for another one of my readers to shine: “Max, I am a [redacted] industry analyst for one of the largest investment firms. Sometime ago while doing a visit at a large company we cover, I was the leading analyst conducting our due diligence visit. As I started …
Do you know your fallacies [list of informal fallacies] ? People are often lead by irrational mind tricks and trips employed by high charging individuals. Heuristics, faking social proofs, high flying stories backed by other stories, mocking people, and so forth are tactics used to win and gain support. Bernard Madoff …
A publisher (let’s call them ramdomly) asked me to write a CEO Bluebook on the blueprint for CEO ascension. The problem with that is CEO ascension is not something like writing a cooking recipe formula. Also, CEO biographies are all over the place, from Steve Jobs to Travis Kalanick, you …
I’m speaking out today 10 Max Cantor “maxims”. I know I’ve slipped a few of those gold nuggets in previous posts, will not be repeating those. I’m sure you can find them if you try. To simplify here, we’ll start off at number one. The World is full of ass*oles …
There’s a Harvard Business Review writeup “To be Number One, get the Right Number Two” (Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 2012). The message is that “most leaders benefit from a running-the-company mate. A good number two can back them up, reinforce their message, and handle major responsibilities with the same broad view as …
Headlining and spearheading (not sorry for my investment banking jargon, folks) the June 1st ’17 Fortune magazine portrait is an excerpt from Adam Lashinsky new book, Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination. The article title is Riding Shotgun and is about Travis Kalanick (TK), Uber’s CEO. Adam Lashinsky is …
I didn’t know what Krav Maga was until recently. Monday, June 5th 2017, The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece on it “‘Contact Combat’ before work” with the story of PayPal CEO Dan Shurman (age 59) being a daily practitioner of it. I thought Jujitsu was intelligent and robust, but Krav Maga …
In an article titled Rankings Defy Usual Gender Gap, WSJ on June 1st, 2017 acknowledged (finally!) that female CEOs earn more money than their male counterparts at some of the largest U. S. companies. “Last year, 21 female CEOs received a median compensation package of $13.8 MM compared with the …
In my post on wire tapping I had a motivational video. A reader wrote me about it : “Why do you have that video on your site ? Motivation is for the weak.” I have removed the video, but not because of what this reader said, but because it was out …
A reader says “I learned more from this blog than from Mark Zuckerberg’s speech at Harvard, Dale Carnegie’s books and G100 counsel combined. Don’t get me wrong, Zuck’s not a bad guy, but I don’t need him to tell me about the ecosystem and planetary welfare from his pedestal.” Thanks, pal. …
