{"id":1030,"date":"2005-08-08T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/better_late_tha\/"},"modified":"2005-08-08T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T22:49:00","slug":"better_late_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/better_late_tha\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the board of Morgan Stanley realized very late in the game that William Purcell needed to go (see the article in Friday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">www.wsj.com<\/a>, subscription required).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read before that Mr. Purcell wasn&#8217;t the most like CEO on Wall Street, but I find it ironic that the word &quot;Director&quot; is used for some of these folks.&nbsp; Can they look in the mirror (after so many talented people were leaving, the stock price under performing and business lines faltering) and say they didn&#8217;t know.&nbsp; It was well documented that the board of Morgan Stanley had it&#8217;s head in the sand for some time.<\/p>\n<p>There is hope, John Mack is a pretty remarkable leader from what I understand.&nbsp; When he took over and Morgan, I was pleased about the decision.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s hope Morgan&#8217;s board doesn&#8217;t wait til its too late to discover Mack&#8217;s knack for turning things around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the board of Morgan Stanley realized very late in the game that William Purcell needed to go (see the article in Friday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com, subscription required).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read before that Mr. Purcell wasn&#8217;t the most like CEO on Wall Street, but I find it ironic that the word &quot;Director&quot; is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}