Archive for January 2016

The Quartet

Posted on January 12, 2016, 9:22 am, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Challenges, Change.

In “The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789,” Joseph J. Ellis chronicles the planning, drafting, and ratification of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1789.  The title refers to George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison.  These four men, with support from Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson, led […]

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The Big Short

Posted on January 2, 2016, 7:54 am, by Bill Rouse, under Archetypes, Challenges.

Just watched this movie this week, after having read many of the books published on the Great Recession, as well as having served on a National Academy study committee of what happened.  During this study, I had a chance to chat with the second most senior executive at one of the major banks involved, one […]

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