Comments for IR Café http://ircafe.com Serving up mental caffeine for investor relations professionals Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on In 2012, embrace the uncertainty? by Dick Johnson http://ircafe.com/2012/01/02/in-2012-embrace-the-uncertainty/#comment-8038 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:11:42 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=10227#comment-8038 Good thoughts, Mike. Keeping the hands on the wheel, making those quick course corrections and explaining this to investors seems a lot better than closing your eyes in rough waters.

]]> Comment on In 2012, embrace the uncertainty? by Mike McCarthy http://ircafe.com/2012/01/02/in-2012-embrace-the-uncertainty/#comment-8037 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:29:15 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=10227#comment-8037 Vision is a critical element of leadership and its expression should not be stifled because CEO’s are unwilling to take risks. A better question to ask within the context of this post would be just that, why are these highly educated men and women afraid to tell us what they are thinking?

To borrow another analogy, if a boat’s captain is in dangerous shoals does s/he have the luxury of just taking their hands off the wheel and claiming lack of visibility makes steerage irrelevant?

At these times, we look to experience to help guide us even when it cannot plot an exact course. Executives and their teams must be quick to course correct for real mistakes before they get too far along. And herein lies the soft underbelly. Most organizations cannot get out of their own way, especially when peer pressures drive them into the pack whereas their own vision could very well enable them to lead it.

]]> Comment on Shareholders & ‘the ADD society’ by Rob Berick (@robberick) http://ircafe.com/2011/10/14/shareholders-the-add-society/#comment-5466 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:00:04 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=10158#comment-5466 I love the quote re: “investing society, not a trading society.” Reminds me of something I read that the one upshot from the financial market turmoil is that it would put stocks back in the hands of real investors.

]]> Comment on Governance is still about people by Dick Johnson http://ircafe.com/2010/09/10/governance-is-still-about-people/#comment-5184 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:11:14 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=8240#comment-5184 Thanks – that link got old, and I appreciate the tip – I made the update.

]]> Comment on Governance is still about people by Kailyn Law http://ircafe.com/2010/09/10/governance-is-still-about-people/#comment-5168 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:35:18 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=8240#comment-5168 Good morning,

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]]> Comment on IR is still about the long term by Things could be worse « IR Café http://ircafe.com/2011/05/12/ir-is-still-about-the-long-term/#comment-5059 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:48:14 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=9451#comment-5059 [...] paying off, the quality and experience of management, and the expertise of your board. The long-term investors will be with [...]

]]> Comment on Governance is still about people by Things could be worse « IR Café http://ircafe.com/2010/09/10/governance-is-still-about-people/#comment-5058 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:48:12 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=8240#comment-5058 [...] and how it’s paying off, the quality and experience of management, and the expertise of your board. The long-term investors will be with [...]

]]> Comment on The job of the CEO (and IRO) by Things could be worse « IR Café http://ircafe.com/2009/05/05/the-job-of-the-ceo-and-iro/#comment-5057 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:48:09 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=3834#comment-5057 [...] on the track record of your strategy and how it’s paying off, the quality and experience of management, and the expertise of your board. The long-term investors will be with [...]

]]> Comment on Want respect? Get strategic! by Things could be worse « IR Café http://ircafe.com/2011/06/14/lessons/#comment-5056 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:48:07 +0000 http://ircafe.com/?p=9659#comment-5056 [...] your IR messages on the track record of your strategy and how it’s paying off, the quality and experience of management, and the expertise of your [...]

]]> Comment on Bear market IR – is it different? by Jamie Dimon: Cheer up, America! « IR Café http://ircafe.com/2008/10/06/bear-market-ir-is-it-different/#comment-4134 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:36:14 +0000 http://ircafe.wordpress.com/?p=740#comment-4134 [...] 2008, I shared 10 ideas on doing investor relations in a bear market. These apply today, too, for investor relations practitioners surveying the Wall Street [...]

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