Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • Planning for Financial Disruption Due to Covid-19

    One of the more unfortunate side effects being felt around the world in the wake on the ongoing global pandemic is the pressure on people’s finances. Many people the world over, not just in the US have suffered unjustly due to job losses, reduced working capacity and frequency loss of…

  • Living for Giving: Learning To Be a Charitable Entrepreneur

    Picture – CC0 License  Philanthropy is something that we are all doing our best to incorporate into our lives. When you are running a company, in some respects, it encourages you to be shrewd. And this has been apparent during the last 9 months or so. When you are running…

  • 208 Frederick Kaufman, The Money Plot

    Frederick Kaufman Frederick Kaufman is an author, a contributing editor at Harper’s, and a professor at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.

  • Why It’s Sometimes A Bad Idea To Say Sorry In Business

    Although it’s good to say sorry sometimes, and it might even be deemed completely essential at some points in your life, saying sorry is something that can be done too much. The word ‘sorry’ will quickly lose all meaning if you say it out of habit at times when, in…

  • 207 Ruth DeFries, What Would Nature Do?

    Ruth DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York. She uses images from satellites to track how the world’s demands for food and other resources are changing the planet.  Ruth DeFries has worked throughout the tropics, including the Brazilian Amazon, India, and other…

  • Portfolio Return For 2020

    This year, 202 was full of surprises. During the month of March, hell broke lose. Due to Covid-19 most portfolios went down. How ever, after about one month, when people re-evaluated their position and considered the financial help from the government, some companies started to soar, in particular the technology…