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Entries from April 26th, 2010

The Greatest Threat to Personal and Business Success—is Success

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Ethics, Business Management

Successful Leaders Fail When They Stop Doing the Things that Made Them Successful in the First Place
In the past few months the media has besieged us with countless stories about the imperfect personal lives of two of the best known sports stars in the country – Tiger Woods and Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers. [...]

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Most CEOs Have Employee TLC Bass Ackward

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Ethics, Business Management

Media Kudos for CEOs of US Airways Group, Quicken Loans, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Olympus Corp. only Highlight Their Ineptitude
In a Wall Street Journal feature article (As Crisis Eases, CEOs Give Staff Some TLC, April 3, 2010,) the business flagship of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. was all goo-goo over the actions of the CEOs of US Airways, [...]

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Hypocrisy Thy Name is Billy “Augusta” Payne!

April 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business Management

Augusta National Golf Leader and Members Show Height of Pomposity and Double-Standard
And you thought all the bigoted, good old boy, bubba, white-trash rednecks were relegated to trailer parks in Alabama. Think again! The real redneck white trash congregated for their annual convention this past weekend in Augusts, Georgia. It was easy to pick them out. [...]

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