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Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman: How to prioritize problems in a business Facebook Twitter Comments Print Email By Blair Shiff Fox Business Reposted by Scott SHields Katy, Scott Shields Houston, www.morganshields.com How to solve a problem in your company Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman shares the best way to solve a problem. Problems arise constantly in businesses, but an effective leader knows not only how to solve each one but how to prioritize them. Stephen Schwarzman , chairman, CEO and co-founder of the largest alternative investment firm in the world Blackstone , told FOX Business the best way to solve a problem. "I think about what the one or two critical factors are," Schwarzman said. "What's creating this issue and how do I figure that out?" He said by determining the root cause of the issue, sometimes it's easier to solve it. Also, he shared it's crucial to determine which problem is the most...

Yale professor Stephen Roach jumps on the criticism wagon in his latest comments, including stating that Trump's latest leaked tactics would be 'unmitigated disaster'. Unfortunately, while concluding the unarguable, he, not unlike many in the press and university system, fail to examine long term implications of negotiation tactics. This short-sided view, along with CNBC reporting of it, appears to be more of a methodology designed to criticise and headline, rather than to create a recommendation or create balance. US pulling investment from China would be an ‘unmitigated disaster,’ says Yale’s Stephen Roach Lizzy Gurdus PUBLISHED SAT, SEP 28 2019 8:45 AM EDT US pulling investment from China would be an ‘unmitigated disaster’ U.S.-China trade talks have hit another snag. The next chapter in the saga involves the Trump administration considering cutting back on investments in China , a source familiar with the matter told CNBC Friday. St...

Blackstone’s Stephen A. Schwarzman: Lessons on how to be a successful entrepreneur By Stephen A. Schwarzman Published September 17, 2019 Opinion FOXBusiness Reposted by Scott Shields Katy, Scott Shields Houston Blackstone CEO: Capitalism has created an enormous increase in standard of living Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman on the debate over capitalism versus socialism and the importance of improving the U.S. educational system. Today, business schools across the world teach students how to be entrepreneurs. There are frameworks and checklists for building and financing new ventures, and charts that plot the milestones of a new company, usually on a single slide along a smooth, always-upward curve. No one ever spends enough time telling you about the pain. My experience of entrepreneurship was anything but a smooth, upward curve. It’s been filled with ups and downs, unpredictable challenges, and many hard-learned lessons. Starting a business requires grit, determination and the...

Surf’s Up: Second wave of LNG is here The long-anticipated “second wave” of liquefied natural gas projects is here as tsunami of final investments decisions get made and construction contracts awarded, executives and analysts said. With construction of export terminals sanctioned during the first wave nearing completion, a second round of large LNG export projects are planned from the Texas Gulf Coast to Africa to the Arctic Circle. A joint venture between Exxon Mobil made a final investment decision in February on the $10 billion Golden Pass LNG export terminal in the southeast corner of Texas. The Woodlands oil and gas company Anadarko reached a final investment in June for the its $20 billion offshore Mozambique LNG project in southeast Africa. Earlier this week, Russian natural gas company Novatek awarded a $7.6 billion construction contract to oilfield service company TechnipFMC to build the Arctic LNG 2 export terminal on the Gydan Peninsula of Siberia. The Arctic Circle p...

STO Market Outlook 2019 Recap of 2018 STO activity and beyond Tatiana Koffman reposted by scott shields katy, scott shields houston Jan 4 If 2017 was the year of the utility token, with ICO’s raising more than $5.6B, 2018 will be remembered as having paved the way for a new generation of security tokens. Issuers and investors continue to remain curious about the benefits of tokenization such as increased liquidity, fractional ownership, decreased issuance costs, innovative structures and greater pricing efficiency. After conducting an independent study of 130+ STOs currently on the market, the following are some trends forming for 2019. Market Trends Deal Size: The current range of deals run from $2M for smaller equity fundraises for consumer tech companies to $1B for institutional venture capital deals. Industry: The vast majority of STOs are are happening in the Real Estate, Finance, Tech and Energy sectors. Structure: Revenue-share, tokeniz...

How blockchain could upend M&A and Investment Banking ther deals December 6, 2018 By  James Marshall , Deals Partner, Re-posted by Scott Shields Katy, Scott Shields Houston Imagine partnering with a foreign company run by executives you’ve never actually met, or imagine crowd financing a new film even if it required a big budget? Many investors would shy away from such deals, feeling that the risks were too big or too ambiguous to take on. But given blockchain’s evolution in recent years, we’d be remiss to write off these prospects just yet. Government and business leaders who aren’t already evaluating blockchain through a new lens need to be. The technology has been widely discussed, and much of the focus around its potential uses in M&A deals has thus far been around making the due diligence process more efficient. However, blockchain’s deeper potential use cases span beyond what dealmakers envision today. As a tamper-proof shared ledger that ...