Finance - U.S Economy

December 8, 2011

Interview with Jim Collins, author of the book Great By Choice

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Mike Carruthers:
Some companies even in this economy are doing well, why is that?

Jim Collins:
Basically we found that you need 3 behaviors; fanatic discipline, empirical creativity, and productive paranoia.
 

August 4, 2011

Interview with Dan Pink, author of the book  A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

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Mike Carruthers:
If you're worried about your current job or where your next job is coming from, you're in good company - no one really knows what the future holds.

Dan Pink:
Ten years from now, twenty years from now a lot of the work that people are going to be doing is going to be in professions that don't exist in industries that haven't been invented yet.
 

March 22, 2011

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

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Mike Carruthers:
For years the talking heads on TV have been predicting the future of politics, the stock market and world events and up till now they’ve mostly been wrong.

Dan Gardner:
And so the question then is, “Well if the experts were failing to predict the future in the past are they any better now?”  And I think the answer is no.
 

March 21, 2011

Interview with Dan Gardner, author of the book Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better

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Mike Carruthers:
When you watch television, news and business shows there’s no shortage of experts predicting the future of politics, world events and the stock market. Are they accurate?

Dan Gardner:
What you need of course to access expert prediction accuracy is a proper experiment unfortunately that experiment has been done.
 

October 20, 2010

Interview with Ken Kamen, author of the book Reclaim Your Nest Egg: Take Control of Your Financial Future (Bloomberg)

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Mike Carruthers:
Now that the economy seems to be recovering, everyday investors want to know where to put their money.  

Ken Kamen:
Spending a lot of time picking through which individual companies to own is just not the best use of the casual investor's time.
 

 October 19, 2010

Interview with Ken Kamen, author of the book Reclaim Your Nest Egg: Take Control of Your Financial Future (Bloomberg)

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Mike Carruthers:
The tough economic times of the last few years has proven to be a hard lesson for many.

Ken Kamen:
The number 1 thing that’s happened since the market meltdown is that people have lost confidence more than they’ve lost money.
 

July 15, 2010

Interview with Deborah Owens, author of the book A Purse of Your Own: An Easy Guide to Financial Security

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Mike Carruthers:
When you look at how most wealthy people got that way you realize that they look at money differently than other people and they understand that…

Deborah Owens:
The average person is usually wrong and they understand that they have to act the opposite than everyone else and generally they’ll be OK.

 May 10, 2010

Interview with Richard Florida, author of the book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

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Mike Carruthers:
Although the economy seems to be recovering it has taken a toll and changed how people live.

Richard Florida:
And I think what we’re doing right now, in the reset, people all over our country are resetting the way they live and reinventing new ways of living and working – and that’s what’s going to pull us up.

Richard Florida, author of the book The Great Reset…

November 17, 2009

Interview with Dr. Tim Irwin, author of the book Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership  

www.drtimirwin.com

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Mike Carruthers:
It’s not all that uncommon for very successful people to get all the way to the top and then fail in a big way - and there’s some lessons there for all of us.

Dr. Tim Irwin:
Failure is really about character, not in the sense of being dishonest or fraudulent but rather a failure of character in the broader sense – for example arrogance or being dismissive.

Dr. Tim Irwin