Playing the Enemy by John Carlin This is the first stanza of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Poetry Foundation, 2022). Individual lines were used by Winston Churchill in a speech during WWII (International Churchill Society, 2021) and it was on the cover of The Economist with a large picture of Nelson Mandela upon his death in December 2013 (The Economist, 2013). Henley’s […]
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The books I read can sometimes be a little lobsided. A lot of economics, business, and finance. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy other genres as well. I absolutely do and Born A Crime by Trevor Noah is a perfect example of a wonderful book, that is unusual for my bookshelf. Spear of the Nation Apartheid
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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger If you and I would have bought Disney stock in 1981 we’d have made a return of about 16.300% – that is an insane return. While this doesn’t tell us how Disney is going to perform in the future, it is interesting to observe why it did so
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Just do it: The making of Nike and the People behind it Mexico City was the host of the 1968 summer Olympics. Nike, then known as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS), was the US distributor of Onitsuka Tiger. Onitsuka and BRS together developed a new type of long-distance running shoe for the summer Olympics. It had
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