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 [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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 [...]
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
So many news items of cheating in so many different walks of life. Even fisherman are cheating (“yo-yo” tactics where the bait is filled with lead weights, the fish eat it and weigh more when the champion is decided). Are there more people cheating or is more of the cheating reported? The Ethics Resource Center [...]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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