Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communications

A groundbreaking system for measuring organizational trustworthiness to determine investment potential"e;Tremendous! Laura Rittenhouse has delivered again! Investing Between the Lines is destined to become a classic in showing how candor is the language of trust and how trust is the basis on which companies ultimately succeed. I highly recommend this most interesting and insightful book."e;Stephen M. R. Covey, author of the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Speed of Trust and coauthor of Smart TrustIn Investing Between the Lines, CEO communications expert, L. J. Rittenhouse offers a proven methodology for accurately analyzing the worthiness of an investment: Reading corporate "e;fog,"e; i.e., shareholder letters, and other corporate correspondence.Based on a model that's made believers of Warren Buffet and Jack Welch, Rittenhouse looks at the "e;fog"e; of 100 Fortune 500 companies-and then overlays these "e;Fog rankings"e; on the stock's price performance. It's a system that made Rittenhouse one of the very first to predict the Lehman Bros. implosion, and other financia disasters-and that will arm investors with the skills and knowledge to unearth hidden risks in their portfolios and pick potential winners.L. J. Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO strategic and investor relations company that annually conducts a benchmark survey of CEO candor and stock price performance