What does a CTO do?

What does a CTO do?

What does a CTO do? by The CTO is the Chief Technology Officer. What does a CTO do in a high-tech company? It is the most ill-defined of the CxO jobs. The trick is figuring out what activities can make a difference and which are merely motions. When I briefly took the...
Career Planning: How to get laid off

Career Planning: How to get laid off

Career Planning: How to get laid off April 26, 2022 by Lance There are lots of ways to get fired and there are lots of ways to get laid off, the distinction being that getting fired is directly about you and getting laid off is purportedly first about your position. ...
Poetry and Cleantech Investing

Poetry and Cleantech Investing

Poetry and Cleantech Investing April 25, 2022 by Lance I am occasionally asked by friends about prospects for all sorts of “green” technologies to have an impact on satisfying the world’s energy consumption.  It is difficult to get ones mind around the scale of the...
Stock buyback strategy

Stock buyback strategy

Suppose I proposed to you a stock purchase strategy of the form, “when the stock is at a high or medium price, buy it, but when it is historically low, don’t,” what would you think?  Doesn’t sound very good, does it? It is the logical inverse of dollar-cost...