It seems my industry colleagues have been wrongly optimistic and also hyper cynical. At least that is the bottom line of the read I get in comparing the analysis of the 2nd annual Semaphore Confidence Survey with last year’s results. And some people have very...
I think I was subscriber number 293 – certainly somewhere under one thousand. That got me the privilege of sharing a Dim Sum meal in Boston’s Chinatown with the curly haired, lightening talking, quick-fire questioning editor of what was then known as PE Week Wire. In...
I’m a morning person. No, not the kind you are thinking. The type that goes to bed at 2:30 or 3:00 AM. You won’t find me at a power breakfast at a fancy hotel at 6:30 AM as I’ll be making breakfast for my 12 yr old daughter Celia and then jumping,...
Is 2011 a Wasteland or Playground? It seems my industry colleagues have continued to be wrongly optimistic about their personal income against a backdrop of continued and decided lack of confidence in the economy and their national governments. That appears to be the...
Results of Annual Semaphore PE Industry Confidence Survey It’s all about the cash. Reversing a trend, my industry colleagues seem to have the wind at their backs when it comes to their personal income and business expectations – this despite a decided lack of...
The Semaphore Confidence Survey respondents are truly prescient. If America had only listened to our results last year it would have saved the American people over a Billion dollars in advertisements and political machinations in the just concluded presidential...
