INSIGHTS
Originally published in the Deseret News National Edition. My mother passed away about a month ago. The passage of time has allowed me to reflect about, internalize and process the experience. I finally feel I can write about it and want to share an experience from the final years of her life. My thoughts start…
Originally published in Utah Business. Just as a coach reviews game film to assess his or her team, I like to read economic game film to understand Utah’s economy. While sports analogies are often overused and frequently incomprehensible to those who lack specific sports expertise, I find the ‘game film’ analogy to be quite useful…
Originally published in the Deseret News. While driving in downtown Salt Lake City this week I witnessed a vivid contrast. It was lunchtime and the city I love was teeming with life. A TRAX light-rail train rambled through traffic, a guy in a suit pedaled along on a lime green bike-share bicycle, construction workers labored…
Originally published in the Deseret News. Salt Lake City is now the second-largest Goldman Sachs office in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world. What was in 2000 a small regional operation has blossomed into a workforce of several thousand people and growing. With the workforce of Fidelity Investments, the Royal Bank of…
Originally published in Utah Business. I once visited the National Archives in Washington, D.C., with a group of Utah business leaders as guests of Sen. Orrin Hatch. I will never forget the experience. Serving as the senior U.S. senator gives you extraordinary access to the nation’s archival treasures. At one table I saw the actual…
Originally published in the Deseret News. “I come to you at a strange time in American politics.” Well-known journalist and author Cokie Roberts expressed this sentiment in a speech this week in Salt Lake City. Thursday night’s debate underlined this statement. A full one year and three months before Election Day, 10 Republican candidates squared…
Originally published in the Deseret News. “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.” — Psalms 22:20 The escape of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from a maximum security prison in Mexico is the stuff of movies. The kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel escaped through a mile-long, lighted and ventilated…
Originally published in Utah Business. Most people are familiar with the “Broken Windows” theory of solving social problems. In a nutshell, it says to pay attention to little problems because they are a precursor to bigger problems. If a broken window is left unrepaired, then passersby will conclude nobody cares. Over time, more serious things…
Originally published in the Deseret News. I love the word “grace,” but, like most people, I don’t normally associate it with patriotism. Over the past several years, that’s changed. The tragedy of September 11 and the unity that followed, the controversial wars, the bitter entanglements in Washington and the national funk we’ve been through —…
Originally published in the Deseret News. The International Paris Air Show is the largest and longest-running aerospace trade show in the world. For over 100 years the aviation industry has been gathering here to showcase the latest technologies in aviation and connect customers with suppliers. Charles Lindbergh landed his historic 1927 flight at this airport. This…