Entries by IslerNW

The Sure Path to Failure: Ignore the Basics

Article by Jason Hreha | Featured on Inc.com Stop. Whatever you’re doing right now; please, just stop. I need you to take two deep breaths. I need you to take four steps back. Look at the scene in front of you. Look at the problem you’re trying to tackle. Perhaps you’ve just joined a new […]

JPMorgan Settles With U.S. Over ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Hires in Asia

Article by Patricia Hurtado, Keri Geiger, & Matt Robinson | Featured on Bloomberg A JPMorgan Chase & Co. intern had poor grades at the Wharton School. His supervisor in Asia told colleagues that “he’s not really built” for investment banking. He had “attitude issues,” had trouble “following basic rules” and was a prolific napper. Yet […]

Spending vs. profits: Amazon, short-term investors at odds again

Article Featured on Reuters | Hadrian / Shutterstock.com Amazon.com Inc may be a “buy” for the vast majority of analysts, but it was a “sell” for a lot of investors on Friday. Few of those investors would have been disappointed, though. While Amazon’s stock fell 4.5 percent to $781.67 in morning trading, it had risen […]

Ransomware Attacks Are Soaring, Says Beazley in Data Breach Report

Article Featured on Insurance Journal | Ransomware attacks against businesses will be four times higher in 2016 than last year, with a growing number of ransom-seeking hackers demanding bitcoin rather than money, according to a report by specialty insurer Beazley. The Beazley Breach Insights report is based on the insurer’s client data breaches in the […]

Banks Ponder the Meaning of Life as Deutsche Agonizes

By Carmel Crimmins and Olivia Oran | Article Featured on Reuters | Faiz Zaki / Shutterstock.com It wasn’t just Deutsche Bank that was grappling with big questions about the future at the International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington last week. The German bank is scrambling to overhaul its operations as it faces a multi-billion dollar fine […]

Rethinking the Oil Market

By RABAH AREZKI | Article Featured on Project Syndicate Oil prices have plummeted by about 65% from their peak in June 2014 (see chart below), and there is now intense debate about why. One thing we know for sure is that the oil market has undergone structural changes, thus making this latest episode different from previous dramatic price […]

7 Crucial Lessons People Learn Too Late in Life

Article By Nicolas Cole | Featured on Inc.com Life lessons are full of wisdom because they often have to be learned the hard way. However, the hardest part about that process is realizing that sometimes not every opportunity lasts forever. You finally “get it” long after the fact. If possible, it’s best to learn these […]

Probing the Productivity Paradox

Article by Kemal Dervis & Zia Qureshi | Featured on Project Syndicate Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics. All of these advances ostensibly should have boosted productivity; and yet, in […]