I am sure that I when I first heard it, I underestimated the power of the concept underlying my sister’s (Nancy Boswell’s) non-governmental organization: Transparency International. It is an entity that educates, lobbies and otherwise puts pressure on government officials and corporate chieftains to eliminate corruption and to stop keeping the public from knowledge it […]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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You can all see the highlights of the convention in many places, especially on the web. But there is one “low light” that sticks in my mind. Asked by tv talking heads for his view of one major party thrown by the lobbyists and how that fits with recent ethics reforms, Senator Lautenberg scoffed: “somebody […]
Friday, August 8, 2008
Comments Off on Should Reckless CEOs Profit From Our Pain?
Last October (2007), Kelsey Hubbard on WSJ’s MarketWatch (see video page on this website), asked me what went wrong at Merrill Lynch and what mistakes were made by Stan O’Neal who had not yet departed with his compensation package of hundreds of millions of dollars. Reiterating what I had posted months before that, I said […]
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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So famous, powerful, jet-setting news magnate Conrad Black has been convicted of fraud. And started serving his 6+year sentence today. Many CEOs shudder at what looms in his future – probably more litigation, a possible tell-all book by his wife, the loss of a friend of thirty years, exclusion from important places that were his […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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