Peter L. Bernstein and
Theodore H. Silbert, in Harvard Business To Oracles? Review (Sept.-Oct. 1984), P.O. Box 3010,
Woburn, Mass. 01888-9975.
If you like having egg on your face, economic forecasting may be the profession for you.
Despite its many spectacular failures, write Bernstein and Silbert, New York financial consultant and banker, respectively, the art of read- ing tea leaves is indispensable to business. An executive who makes no effort to anticipate the future will find himself out...