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CEO’s Story: Integrity Not For Sale

Monday, July 30, 2012

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One of my close friends was the newly hired CEO of a F200 company – a distributor of industrial products. Customers were king and the unwritten rules of the industry at that time were to say “yes” to customer requests for special handling, inspection, or packaging, even if it degraded product quality or violate the […]

Enough to Make Your Blood Boil Though You Wont Be Covered

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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Every once in awhile there is a revelation about big companies that makes my blood boil. This is one of them. If you discount what Wendell Potter of CIGNA says by half, you will still be upset at both the deception and power of the health insurance companies and the ignorance and lack of spine […]

Masters of the Universe: The Truth About Wall Street

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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David Leonhardt (NY TImes, today, the Looting of Americas Coffers) has it right. If you dont yet understand how overwhelming greed led bankers and investment bankers to build a house of cards, walk away with bonuses based on performance that would lead to billions of write-offs of their own companies and not care, you must […]

AIG Gives New Meaning to F*ck You Money

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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It is especially hard for the outrage of a Congress tainted by its aiding and abetting what Warren Buffett called an economic Pearl Harbor (not an apt analogy since we did it to ourselves) to be credible. It must come from the electorate and CEOs with the right values. Outrage about what? About the self-absorbed […]

What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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