bill_fischer

🇺🇸🇨🇭B School-based innovation observer (MIT/Sloan, IMD, CEIBS, UNC-KenanFlagler, Clarkson), Brooklyn-born, Engineer, China veteran , T50 HoF

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

[Tom Peters @tom_peters]

There is not a shadow of doubt. Yesterday was one of the very worst days in the history of the United States of America. I repeat: not a shadow of doubt.

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

Sharing leadership in teams can bring success even in situations where a strong directing presence is normal. Arizona's March Madness win last night is an excellent example of this. https://t.co/ls48HPWO4I

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This isn't true. Democrats have put bills on the floor to fully fund TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, & CISA. Republicans, including Collins, have pushed them aside so they can score cheap political points. She thinks Maine voters aren't smart enough to figure out the truth.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog because you hadn't invested the appropriate time and training, and then you have the audacity to go into a book and say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices! ... Those are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment, not unlike what happened in Minneapolis."

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Dow 50,000...

But look around, and the real question is why isn't it 60,000?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The amount of damage done to this country because a troubled man could not accept defeat is epic and continues to this day. The riot at the Capitol was one of America's darkest chapters. No pardons or rewriting of history can erase it.

https://t.co/NZuLJxey9R via @NYTimes

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

@Math_files Alex, this is really interesting; not surprising, but very helpful!! Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Bill

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

@RealJimChanos @bennpeifert Dick Levin’s book is an unsung classic!!

[Deirdre Nansen McCloskey @DeirdreMcClosk]

Last month, the Committee finally acknowledged that ideas, not capital, made the modern world.

They gave the prize to Philippe Aghion, a French theorist, and two empirical scientists, the Canadian Peter Howitt, and my dear friend, the Dutch-Israeli-American Joel Mokyr. Hurrah!

My latest column for @folha

[Michael Banach @m1db]

@nytimes Historic Changes until the Courts stop this.

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

@ShaunCoffey Love it!! Well said, Shaun.

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

Silicon Valley has become an alternative source of leadership and organization ideas for mature, successful, market-leading incumbent firms in search of renewed vitality. Join @JimPulcrano & myself to reflect on >25 years of first-hand SV experience: https://t.co/LUHMO71k1z...

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

The unforced surrender of the United States of America: the most astonishing betrayal in all of its history.

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

Still apt for our times.

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

“…Herblock, and Ben Bradlee, a former editor of The Post, were “spinning, kicking and screaming in their graves.”
https://t.co/wfHAnZfEF9 via @NYTimes

[bill_fischer @bill_fischer]

This is a profoundly different way to think about leaders & leadership: leaders as creators of chaos; leaders who are able to learn from chaotic experiences & grow as a result; leadership as a contact sport; and one that is inherently personal.

https://t.co/KNAdT1W6Rk