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- PA I Left Corporate. I Don’t Regret It. I Still Miss It.
I Left Corporate. I Don’t Regret It. I Still Miss It.
I was a CEO who answered to a board of directors AND now the only person I answer to is myself. This is simultaneously freeing and overwhelming.
Mary Beth Storjohann
- PA Your Personal Brand May Now Be Your Most Valuable Asset
Your Personal Brand May Now Be Your Most Valuable Asset
We all know that companies will evolve, platforms will change, algorithms will change and careers will shift.
Anna Crowe
- PA Healthcare Prices Have Nearly Doubled the Inflation Rate. Here’s Why
Healthcare Prices Have Nearly Doubled the Inflation Rate. Here’s Why
Success in health reform requires the sector to look like other growth industries with high productivity increases and lower than average price growth.
Guest Contributor
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- PA Your Team Isn’t Resisting Change. They’re Exhausted From It.
Your Team Isn’t Resisting Change. They’re Exhausted From It.
Shifting priorities, and demands to do more with less, their capacity to absorb another change is running low. That’s change fatigue.
Karin Hurt
- PA Food Inflation Starts Long Before You Reach a Grocery Store
Food Inflation Starts Long Before You Reach a Grocery Store
Even before this heatwave, the general math for food animals is already bad. Animals are inefficient calorie converters.
Elysabeth Alfano
- PA Your Brain Is Wired To Make Investing Harder Than It Should Be
Your Brain Is Wired To Make Investing Harder Than It Should Be
It begins with a simple truth: our brains were never designed to think naturally in terms of probabilities.
Jay Mooreland
- PA Has Financial Disclosure Reached a Breaking Point?
Has Financial Disclosure Reached a Breaking Point?
As is almost always the case with these debates, there is both truth and hyperbole on both sides, and I will try to thread the needle.
Aswath Damodaran
- PA Clients Don’t Pay for Agreement. They Pay for Judgment.
Clients Don’t Pay for Agreement. They Pay for Judgment.
A senior wealth manager said something to me last week that I haven't stopped thinking about. My job isn't to tell clients what they want to hear.
Guest Contributor
- PA Sorting News Nois’ From Real News Is What Separates Good Advisors
Sorting News Nois’ From Real News Is What Separates Good Advisors
Advisors who react to every one of those swings are not doing their job. Advisors who ignore all of them are not doing it either.
Nigel Green
- PA 11 Most Read Articles of the Week
11 Most Read Articles of the Week
Whether it’s by way of gray divorce, becoming a widow or simply not getting married in the first place, a growing number of retirees are single.
Douglas Heikkinen
- PA Your Doctor Was Never Meant To Fix You
Your Doctor Was Never Meant To Fix You
Why fear makes patients seek rescue—and doctors rush to provide it
Dr. Charles Glassman
- PA Costco Looks Fully Stocked. Food Security Tells a Different Story.
Costco Looks Fully Stocked. Food Security Tells a Different Story.
Why would the food system ever change? We walk into Costco and everything looks fine…or is it?
Elysabeth Alfano

