ABiz Columns
One Power Lunch You Don’t Want to Miss
On May 17, LEDA will unveil its first-ever Economic Performance Index, pulling 1,500 data points into 15 key statistics to help your business succeed.
If you check Wikipedia for the definition of a dashboard report, this is what you’ll find: a management tool that measures and presents critical data on key business performance areas in a summarized manner much like a car dashboard, so the management can quickly respond with appropriate decisions.
Just Drill
A Houma lawmaker’s bill aims to incentivize ultra-deep operations.
The state is considering creating a program that would allow leased lands to be consolidated and operational costs shared for ultra-deep drilling operations.
Keeping Our Cool
Launched by the Lafayette chamber, INNOV8 is designed to expand our creative economy.
The Loser’s Game
Professionals win points while amateurs simply beat themselves. The same applies to investing.
In 1975, Charles Ellis wrote a wonderful paper titled “The Loser’s Game.” He observed how very difficult it was to be a successful investor, much less “beat the market.” One of the problems he noted – true then and even more so now — was that the market was increasingly becoming dominated by institutional investors — those who had billions of dollars to spend on research, information, access, traders and innumerable other advantages over an individual. How could anyone ever realistically hope to compete against that?
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