Ingolv T Urnes: The Goldman Memoirs – The Great Finale
On Trust, Speed and Risk (Management) Reading about Goldman in the popular press in the nineties and the noughties, you may have thought this is a big gambling operation. Although there were missteps (but fewer than most comparable institutions made), I think part of the secret sauce was dialling up and down the balance between empowerment and controls which enabled Goldman to take advantage of new opportunities faster than […]
Ingolv T Urnes: The Goldman Memoirs – Part Two
No Mission Impossible: Snowstorm & Car Crash Another part of the DNA was this idea of never giving up. The deal or the project was pursued with the intensity of elite soldiers (I acknowledge that this appealed to me personally and that having survived, there may be a bit of rose-tinted glasses going on here). On a late-evening February flight […]
Ingolv T Urnes: The Goldman Memoirs – Part One
10 years at Goldman Sachs: 10 years at psKINETIC “Goldman Sachs has clearly shaped your approach to building psKINETIC,” a colleague said just before the Christmas break, “why don’t you write about it?” From the attic I took down my retired, beaten-up banker briefcase; it was empty except for a lovely note from my wife […]