Financial Leadership the Old-Fashioned Way

In Al Gordon, Wall Street Legend, we referred to the era when Wall Street made money the old-fashioned way. In his tribute to Gorden in Business Week, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld picks up on the theme. Sonnenfeld also reminds us what a different country this was when Gordon arrived in it:

Born the year President McKinley was assassinated, when there were only 1,500 cars on the road—and before Chrysler, Ford (F), or GM (GM) existed—Gordon knew Civil War generals as a child. He worked with financial legends of another age, such as J.P. Morgan Jr., Robert Lehman, Mortimer Schiff, and Sidney Weinberg, but also knew today's legends, including Jamie Dimon and Steve Schwarzman.