Perspicacious Philanthropy

Two CEOs discuss cash problems...

Steve: People are on to me to give away my wealth.

Bill: Make sure you give it away to good causes.

Steve: Doesn’t sound easy.

Bill: It’s a full time job, giving away money.

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Voice-over

Steve designed clever products and accumulated megawealth.

Bill cleverly accumulated heaps of money, even more megawealth, then set about the hard job of giving it away wisely.

Steve ran out of time.

They have a problem most of us don’t have: too much wealth to give away. And how to be a perspicacious philanthropist.

For them, it was easy to get, hard to get rid of.

For the rest of us, it’s hard to get, easy to get rid of.
Two CEOs at http://youtu.be/g6yLZrj8U3Y

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If you Google Apple

Tim and Larry discuss the health of Steve Jobs vs Sergey Brin.

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Tim: We just don’t know. He’s an extrovert on stage, a performer, but when it comes to private issues like health, he plays his cards very close to his chest.

Larry: The worse it gets, the less he says?

Tim? Maybe. Maybe so.

Larry: Not in denial?

Tim: Who knows? Could be that. Could be his doctors don’t even know. Could be…

Larry: Unlike Sergey: Quiet guy. Says very little but then finds he might, might, I stress, have a gene predisposing him to Parkinson’s Disease. So what does he do? Comes out with it right there on his blog. Says it straight off.

Tim: Difference is, Steve’s unwell, and Sergey’s in great shape. Steve faces problems right now. Sergey may have years.

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Voice-over

Disclosure of information. Two different approaches. Steve’s approach is to control it, keep it under wraps until it can’t be contained any longer. Sergey’s approach is to come right out and say it.

Though, as Tim suggests, you may react to a present crisis differently to a future hypothetical scenario.

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