Please “Disrespect” Your Senior Management Team!

Dear Clients, We wrote this letter today to our employee-partners with each of you in mind. As you strive to build your respective organizations, perhaps some of what we say may resonate with you and your own employee-partners. Thank you. Please “Disrespect” Your Senior Management Team! “I didn’t want to trouble you, as I didn’t

Jefferies in the Super Bowl

This Sunday, most of the world will be watching the New England Patriots square off against the Philadelphia Eagles in the 52nd annual Super Bowl in Minnesota.

It Is Never A Straight Line Up When You Build

For our first letter of calendar 2018, we decided to write about our experience working with our employee-partners over the years to build Jefferies' Investment Banking business. 

Careers or Investing: Compelling Opportunity vs. Merely Intriguing

Whether you are in the investment management business or running a public or private company, you are faced with the challenges of managing people who have a myriad of options. To make it even more complex, you need to do this while you are trying to make smart investment decisions.