by John Hill | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the mid-1990s, when Percy Weatherall was CEO of Hongkong Land and Michael Smith was a junior property cadet at Jones Lang Wootton, Weatherall offered Smith a job. Smith turned him down as he was already committed to UBS in Sydney. Weatherall, Smith recalls, “wasn’t...
by John Hill | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
On the morning of Monday, March 23, President Trump pulled his first “TACO” of the Iran war. After four weeks of fighting, with oil prices already up 55%, Trump had given Iran an ultimatum on Friday: Make a deal within 48 hours, or the U.S. would strike its power...
by John Hill | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
“We got rid of our HR team.” For most executives, that’s a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable. Speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at...
by John Hill | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s AI talk at a university commencement speech this weekend drew a chorus of boos. But if the students’ reaction was a sign of anxiety, or ambivalence, about the rapid onslaught of AI in our daily lives, the message clearly did not reach...
by John Hill | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
Back in 1993, the great Democratic strategist James Carville—famous for his quip, “It’s the economy, stupid”—told the Wall Street Journal that he used to think that if reincarnation existed, he wanted to come back as the president, the pope, or a .400 baseball hitter....
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