Cursus honorum
I’m not trying to “Break into Wall Street” but I recently bought an advanced Excel course targeted towards those folks. The site also has fun articles dispassionately describing how crazy banking is, knowing full well that readers are committed to the cause and very little could dampen their desire for a job in a finance. If you like Goldman Sachs Elevator Gossip, you’ll probably enjoy this.
Anyway, The track above reminds me of the rigid Cursus honorum for acquiring more power within the governing ranks of the Roman Empire. Despite The Track’s longevity to date, do you think it will decline in our lifetime as political, economic, and cultural power becomes more decentralized through technology? Are business thinkers like Umair Haque and Fred Wilson correct in predicting the decline of The Firm, the economic entity whose raison d’etre was articulated by economist Ronald Coase in his Theory of the Firm? I think yes.
