關於理財的書很多, "鈔票的重量"是作者的真心告白和反省. 這本書真坦白,道出資本市場的形形色色, 我過去真實體驗其中企業在市場中的風風雨雨都在這書中有描述, 閱讀起來格外有感.
過去台灣大戶都是草莽, 專業投資機構也是後來的事, 光這點故荒謬故事就不知多少. 公司裡面的派系爭奪, 董事長,總經理明爭暗鬥, 爭主導權, 不知反映多少台灣公司的現狀. 很多的光怪陸離在公司裡,在市場上, 各種手法都不是書上所能理解, 這是台灣的市場真實 , 我欣賞這作者的真誠, 會閱讀的人,會將潛移默化推進這個市場的體質與內涵.
那些其歪歪斜斜的手段, 像內外帳調整,關係企業的關連交易,親友,及貪官的資金調度利用公司達到避(逃)稅目的, 其實企業如人, 老板最後想在社會上做什麼樣的人, 最後企業就會是什麼樣子, 這企業觀又影響了社會,直接間接影響了你我.
錢其實就是一面鏡子, 這書最好的部份就是將這資本市場的真實表露無遺. 法人,記者, 及利害關係人的關係, 金融業分權的作法防弊卻讓專業判斷受到壓抑. 職場中人,每過一段時間重讀這本書 必定感觸良多.
這本書不是教科書, 有些企業,金融基本素養及經驗的讀者,讀來會更有感.
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Can’t We Do Better?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 7, 2013
THE latest results in the
- First, to be in the middle class, they will need to be constantly improving their skills over their lifetime.
- Second, to do that, they will need a lot more self-motivation. The “digital divide” will soon disappear. Fairly soon, virtually everyone will have a screen and an Internet connection.
- In that world, argues futurist Marina Gorbis, the big divide will be “the motivational divide” — who has the self-motivation, grit and persistence to take advantage of all the free or cheap online tools to create, collaborate and learn.
- And third, countries that thrive the most will be the H.I.E.’s — the high imagination-enabling countries — that attract and enable talent to be constantly spinning off new ideas and start-ups, the source of most new good jobs.
Not good. We’re now in an era in which globalization and the information technology revolution have merged to drastically shrink what was the basis of our middle class for so many years: the “high-wage, middle-skilled” job.
In a less integrated and less automated world of walls, where unions held more sway, many Americans could live an average middle-class lifestyle with average skills.
In today’s hyperconnected world without walls — when more Indians, Chinese, computers, robots and software can perform more average blue-collar and white-collar jobs — the only high-wage jobs are increasingly high-skill jobs.
“Over the last decade, job growth in the industrialized world has almost exclusively been at the top end of the PISA skill distribution,” explained Schleicher,
“while routine cognitive skills, the kinds of things that are easy to teach but also easy to digitize and outsource, have seen the steepest decline in demand.”
In a less integrated and less automated world of walls, where unions held more sway, many Americans could live an average middle-class lifestyle with average skills.
In today’s hyperconnected world without walls — when more Indians, Chinese, computers, robots and software can perform more average blue-collar and white-collar jobs — the only high-wage jobs are increasingly high-skill jobs.
“Over the last decade, job growth in the industrialized world has almost exclusively been at the top end of the PISA skill distribution,” explained Schleicher,
“while routine cognitive skills, the kinds of things that are easy to teach but also easy to digitize and outsource, have seen the steepest decline in demand.”
“Since the link between skills, jobs and growth is becoming ever tighter, it will be harder and harder for governments to address inequalities through redistribution,” argues Schleicher.
To his credit, Obama has also been calling for more investment in preschool, tech-ed and affordable colleges, but Republicans will only talk about tax cuts. Tax cuts alone won’t cut it either.
Our kids face three big adjustments.
So now let’s look at the latest PISA.
It found that the most successful students are those who feel real “ownership” of their education. In all the best performing school systems, said Schleicher, “students feel they personally can make a difference in their own outcomes and that education will make a difference for their future.”
The PISA research, said Schleicher, also shows that “students whose parents have high expectations for them tend to have more perseverance, greater intrinsic motivation to learn.”
The highest performing PISA schools, he added, all have “ownership” cultures — a high degree of professional autonomy for teachers in the classrooms, where teachers get to participate in shaping standards and curriculum and have ample time for continuous professional development.
So teaching is not treated as an industry where teachers just spew out and implement the ideas of others, but rather is “a profession where teachers have ownership of their practice and standards, and hold each other accountable,” said Schleicher.
It found that the most successful students are those who feel real “ownership” of their education. In all the best performing school systems, said Schleicher, “students feel they personally can make a difference in their own outcomes and that education will make a difference for their future.”
The PISA research, said Schleicher, also shows that “students whose parents have high expectations for them tend to have more perseverance, greater intrinsic motivation to learn.”
The highest performing PISA schools, he added, all have “ownership” cultures — a high degree of professional autonomy for teachers in the classrooms, where teachers get to participate in shaping standards and curriculum and have ample time for continuous professional development.
So teaching is not treated as an industry where teachers just spew out and implement the ideas of others, but rather is “a profession where teachers have ownership of their practice and standards, and hold each other accountable,” said Schleicher.
We’re going through a huge technological transformation in the middle of a recession. It requires a systemic response.
Democrats who protect teachers’ unions that block reforms to give teachers more ownership and accountability, and who refuse to address long-term entitlement spending that threatens to deprive us of funds to invest in the young, are harming our future. Republicans who block investments in things like early education and immigration reform — today we educate the world’s top talent in our colleges and then send them back to their home countries — are harming our future.
Democrats who protect teachers’ unions that block reforms to give teachers more ownership and accountability, and who refuse to address long-term entitlement spending that threatens to deprive us of funds to invest in the young, are harming our future. Republicans who block investments in things like early education and immigration reform — today we educate the world’s top talent in our colleges and then send them back to their home countries — are harming our future.
Conservatives need to think differently about the near-term safety nets we need to ease some people through this period, and liberals need to think more seriously about how we incentivize and unleash risk-takers to start new companies that create growth, wealth and good jobs. To have more employees, we need more employers. Just redividing a slow-growing pie will not sustain the American dream.
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