vryadli

К моему всегдашнему считанию того, что в "профессиональном менеджменте" получить должность и работать на ней - весьма разные субпрофессии.


I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall. The essential function of Wall Street is to allocate capital—to decide who should get it and who should not. Believe me when I tell you that I hadn’t the first clue.

I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had savings of my own to manage. I stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985 and stumbled out much richer three years later, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me as preposterous—which is one of the reasons the money was so easy to walk away from.
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If mere scandal could have destroyed the big Wall Street investment banks, they’d have vanished long ago. This woman wasn’t saying that Wall Street bankers were corrupt. She was saying they were stupid. These people whose job it was to allocate capital apparently didn’t even know how to manage their own.

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

Я думаю? что тока качественная демократия спасает эту страну. Думаю? дай волю русскоязычным либералам - и через одно-два поколения будет вторая Ельцинопутия. Кстати, очень хочется дать и посмотреть, куда еще они побегут устанавливать избирательный ценз.