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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up.

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Iceland Ponders Radical Money Plan Including Elimination of Fractional Reserve Lending and Deposit Insurance

MishTalk

The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland". "The But money differs from other commodities in one essential fact.