Fundamentally I’m interested in systems – clear rules make it easier for folks to know what they’ll get. I just can’t escape my engineer training. Right now how a company uses its earned value is something that gets negotiated in the boardroom – a place that employees almost never have representation, and a place where [...]
Archive for January, 2007
structuring return
Posted in Along the Way on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Investing in Opportunity
Posted in Along the Way on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had a great conversation this week with someone who runs a community development venture capital fund. We got down to the core with each other of “what brings you to this table?” The table in this case is a fund designed to make money but balance that with growing jobs in the community. We [...]
Happy Birthday Dr King
Posted in No Reservation on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A quote I transcribed a couple years ago from a recorded speech that alas still sits on my desk. “There are obvious and almost facile connections between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It [...]
