I got to carve through the streets of New York's financial district and discover the awesome feeling of being part of a system where, the harder you worked, the more of those scarce resources you earned! I never looked back.

The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.