it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
For those that don’t know: Ghana failed to qualify in last place for the last AFCON, have previously gotten grouped by Comoros at AFCON, their friendlies leading up were a bloodbath and they switched coaches 2 months ago while suffering multiple huge injuries
There was no team in worse shape and form coming into this tournament, what they’ve done is remarkable
Your CEO should be strong.
Your CTO should be wise.
Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the difference between running a public company and a private partnership
From his conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin from 92W
"In a private partnership, you get wealthy if you work there by your capital count rising. You do not care if you make it all in a 10 year cycle, or make it in 3 years and tread water for the other 7
You can make it evenly or make money in one year and lose money in the next. As long as after the 10 years, you have got it there
In a public company, its about your stock price. Your stock price is a function of your earnings times a multiple. And that multiple is predicated, in part, by the reliability of your earnings."