From the monthly archives:

January 2009

High of Minus One

January 15, 2009 Ministry Leadership

Everybody’s got predictions. Wall street “Quants.” Political pundits. The weather guy. Your CFO. The last thing you want to hear is that the very best you’re likely to achieve will be in negative numbers. As I type this, the temperature here is minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course it feels like -35 with “wind chill,” [...]

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Underwater

January 5, 2009 Ministry Leadership

The money simply disappeared. It was as if the politicians just dumped the money into the river. In fact, that’s exactly what they did. It happened in broad daylight. Weeks became months as hundreds of workers coordinated their efforts to dump money into a hole in the river. Yet to the spectators on the banks, [...]

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