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AIG
AIG Board Fails to Meet Its Duty in Power Struggle
The Hypocrisy Boiling in the AIG Pot
Allianz
Allianz Gets Bad Rap on Stadium
Allianz Life: The Sad Decline of a Great Insurance Company
Allianz: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Allianz Uses Experience in Redundancy to Help Others
This Just In: Allianz admits it has Problems with U.S. Life Operations
What Do Allianz, Jimmy Swaggart, Eliot Spitzer and Larry Craig Share in Common
What Does the Government of Iran and the Management of Allianz Life have in
New Nomination for Numskulls and Nitwits
Allianz/Hartford
Allianz Acquisition of Hartford_Part Zwei
Allianz Life Blog Touches Sensitive Nerve
Allianz on the Prowl
Allianz on the Prowl Part II
Allianz SE Timidity Triggers Blunder in Failure to Acquire Hartford
Five Reasons Why Allianz SE Will (Should) Buy Hartford
Annuities
SEC 151a: Profile in Courage and Cowardice
SEC Further Fogs Fuzzy Insurance Annuity Market
The 151a Annuity Fiasco: Enough Shame and Blame for Most Everyone
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Dateline and Lori Swanson
The Dirty Little Secret in the Annuity Industry
What a Great Time to be in the Annuity Business
Hartford
Like a Blind Stag in Hunting Season, Hartford Financial is Staggering Toward an Uncertain Future
Hartford Financial is Slip Sliding Away
Hartford Life May Have Learned its Lesson; Now if Only the Others Would
Hartford Forced to Outsource Leadership
Wanted: Top-Notch CEO: Finding a Hartford CEO
Hartford's Outsourced CEO: Part II
Building Better Business Management
A Corporate Board of Directs is Most Effective when it Practices Good Parenting
Pay is no Pal to Performance in Most Employee Pay Plans
Peer Group Analysis is the Refuge of the Uninspired
Most Leaders and Companies Fail From Lack of Interest
“Best Practices” is the Fool’s Gold of Management Leadership
What’s So Hard about Doing the Right Thing?
Triumph Awaits in the Undefined World of Vuja De, Not in the Repetitive World of Déjà vu
Winning the Battle of the Bulging Bureaucracy
To Benefit America and Its Future, Corporations Need a Higher Level of Ethical Behavior
Success in a Competitive World Depends on being Creative–not Complicated
Regulation and Regulators Need Regulation
In Good Business Management. It's Easy to Understand Hard
Fixing a Bad Corporate Culture
Don't Let Peer Pressure Haunt Your Business
Be Blind in the Eye of Peer Pressure
Executive Pay Caps and Bonus Hocus
Lessons on Business Management and Ethics from Pettersgate
Another Example of Great Leadership: Bush
Yahoo and the Art of Successful Negotiation
Management Lessons to be Learned from the Failure of General Motors
The Six Attributes of Successful Business Mavericks
Success Attained is Easier than Success Retained
Success: What is it and Who Owns it, Anyway?
The Merry Go Round Antics of Management Consultants
We Exterminate Rats and Cockroaches -- Why Not Management Consultants
Panic as a Management Folly in a Recession
Treating Employees Respectfully Pays Off
What a Riot Working at Hyatt
The Lessons of 2008 That if Learned Well Can Make 2009 Better for All of
Us
Management Lessons in the Tiger Tragedy
Loyalty Gained is Loyalty Earned
Loyalty: A Lost Concept in Business
Is Corporate Culture Putting Your Job at Risk
Is There a PR Person in the House?
Most CEOs Have Employee TLC Bass Ackward
Slippery Slopes are Paved with Entitlement
Telltale Sign of a Company in Decline
The Greatest Threat to Personal and Business Success Is Success
The Siren Song of Synergy
Will Grovel for Food To Win the Corporate Game, First Know it is a Game
Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurism
Bureaucracy is the Beer Belly of Business
Secret Tips to Building a Long, Safe Career as a Bureaucrat
It’s Here! Sensational New GPS App for Entrepreneurs. Easily Downloaded
Bankers and Bureaucrats: Numskulls and Nitwits
Financial Crisis: How the Entrepreneur Deal with it
In Business, Greed is Everybody's Problem and Entrepreneurism is the
Antidote
How Bureaucracy Sabotages Corporate Success and What You Can Do to Avoid
It
In Business, Greed is Everybody's Problem and Entrepreneurism is the
Antidote
Take this Job and Shove it : Bureaucratic Cultures
Recovering Entrepreneurs Often Make the Past the Future
Live in the Past and be Lost in the Future
Health Care and the Insurance Industry
Malpractice For All In The Health Care Coverage Waivers
Health Insurance Industry Exhibits its Deceitfulness and Lack of Ethics
Health Care Legislation: Sign of Failed Leadership
Health Care: One More Time
Health Companies Infected with Pre-Existing Case of Unbridled Greed
Obama's Failed Leadership in Health Care Reform
This Health Care Debate is Making Me Sick
Opportunity Squandered by Insurance Industry in Health Care Debate
Save The Independent Insurance Agent
A Plague on the House of the Health Insurance Industry
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Health Care Debate: A Classic Case of Taking Something Simple and Making
it
Complicated
Health Care Reform: Complicated Problem – Simple Solution
Life Insurance Industry
A Biblical History of the Life Insurance Industry and Why God is Now Delivering His Wrath
Defending the Future of Independent Marketing Organizations: Part Two
For Independent Marketing Organizations the Choice is Simple: Live Free or Die!
The Value of Life Should Never be Cheapened
The Future of the Life Insurance Industry – If There is One!
For the Life Insurance Industry the Future May be Yesterday
Life Insurance Industry Hiding Dirty Little Secret to Mask Real Problems
Insurance Companies Eating Their Young to Save Their Skin
Insurance Companies and Regulators Working in Concert Prove Greed Always Trumps Reason
Insurance Companies Eating Their Young to Save Their Skin
Insurance Executives Prove Stupid is as Stupid Does
Who Wants the Same Old, Same Old? Pray for Change!
Neither Baby Boomers Nor Their Financial Advisors Should Forget about the Future
Insurance Industry: a Guarantee for Trouble
Insurance Industry Crisis Creates New Opportunities
The Insurance Industry in the Obama Era
The Black Hole of the Life Insurance Industry
The State of the Life Insurance Industry: Today and Tomorrow
Is There Much Life Left in Life?
Needed: New Blood in the Insurance Industry
Ernst &Young ---Dumbs Down to Life Insurance Industry
How Smart Insurance Agents Face Down a Recession
Networking among Insurance Pros is More Important Than Ever
What's Wrong with the Insurance Industry?
Gander Institute to Release Findings on Future of Life Insurance
Industry
Needed: Insurance Regulations to Protect Insurance Companies from
Themselves
Neither Baby Boomers Nor Their Financial Advisors Should Forget about the Future
Insurance Industry: a Guarantee for Trouble
Insurance Industry Crisis Creates New Opportunities
The Insurance Industry in the Obama Era
Why is it so Difficult to ask Why?
Improving Your Business Leadership
Do You Have a License to Lead?
Sometimes the Best Boss is No Boss at All
A Sense of Urgency in Business Takes the Sene of Fear Out of Change
You Can Buy a Lot of Things at Best Buy, but You Can’t Buy the Best Map to Success
Employees have the Darndest Ideas
Best Buy Board Shows that even the Best Companies can become Infected with Numbskulls and Nitwits!
to any Mobile Mind-Held Device
J. P. Morgan Debacle is a Good Learning Lesson for any Entrepreneur
Setting Goals and Realizing them is Critical to Success – Maybe
The Best Way to Plan for Business Success is to Can the Business Plan
Building a Better Brand of Capitalism
The Magic Secret to Gaining Prosperity and Success is . . . There is no Secret
If “All’s Fair in Love and War,” what about Business?
The Power of the Powerful is to Empower the Powerless
The Responsibility of Responsible Leadership
EXPOSED: Most Successful Business Leaders are Natural Born Cheaters!
CEOs Should do the Job, Nothing but the Job and the Whole Job They are Hired to Do?
The Bad Seed of Successful Leadership
Mr. Sam Must be Rolling Over in His Grave
The Power to Keep Power is to Share Power
The Strongest Inhibitor of Innovation is Contentment
Events in Egypt are an Echo of History and a Tutorial on Leadership
Learn to Negotiate Like a Russia
Leadership is Willingness to Step Up and Stand Out
Telltale Signs of Inept Leadership and Corporate Arrogance
“Exceptionalism” is a Powerful Tool for Good or Evil in Government and Business
The Risk and Reward of Telling Truth to Power
News Flash: Bankers are Stupid!
Take this Job and Shove it . . .
WikiLeaks Lessons for Business
The Promise of Leadership is Easy – The Hard Part is the Delivery
Leadership Lessons Learned from the Health Care Debate
Leadership: How Much Difference Does a Small Difference Make?
Are you Married to a Lower Form of Life?
On Being McCrystalized: Living Lessons in Leadership
Bankers and Goldfish Run in Schools and get Tanked
Barack Obama Beat The System
Blowing Away the Smoke from the Financial Crisis
BP: Cheap Shots and Lessons in Leadership
Old MacDonald's Farm — Growing a New Crop of Leaders
Where Have All the Ethical Leaders Gone
Why Businesses Need Strong Ethical Leadership
Global Warming Effort Filled With Numskulls and Nitwits
Gulf Oil Spill Could be Good Thing
The Power of a Positive Business Culture
The Secret to Business Success Become a Trust Builder
The Secrets of Business Success
How Business Managers Become Business Leaders
Ethical Leadership Feeding Good Business
Real Leadership Depends on Understanding the Difference Between Ethics and Ethical
Needed: New and Improved Leadership
Leadership and Management Lessons in Life
Mystery Solved: Economic Crisis Caused by Failure of Leaders to Cheat Enough!
Mystery Solved: The Economic Crisis Caused by Weakness and Stupidity
Phil Mickelson and Ethical Leadership
Personalities
Daniel J. Rourke: Happiness in the Sadness of Losing a Special Friend
Extraordinary Person for an Extraordinary Life (Kenneth Dahlberg)
Tips to Take from the Terrible Travails of Tressel
Don Urban, the Real Urban Legend
Hypocrisy Thy Name is Billy Payne
The Hypocrisy Exhibited in the LeBron James Circus
The Dark Side of the George Steinbrenner Legacy
Holiday Letter for Most of Mac’s Family, Friends and Followers (Bob MacDonald)
Holiday Greetings to Family, Friends, and Followers (2012-2013)
Politics and Government
A Pox on All Three Houses of government: Their Timidity Created the Fiscal Cliff
Dancing Around the Fiscal Cliff May be Entertaining, but . . .
Election Lessons for Democracy
The Reality of Capitalism: What it Was and What it Should Be
No Matter Who Wins the Election, You Can be the Winner
Understanding the Difference Between Leadership and Management
Confessions of a Fallen Away Republican
All Pure, Patriotic, Christian Americans Should Vote for Romney-Ryan
Democracy is the Defender of Individual Rights but Only Individuals can Defend Democracy
America has a Rich History of Successful Populist Movements
Government and Big Business are Mortal Enemies–and Other Urban Legends
Romney and Those of His Ilk are Doing a Disservice to Real Capitalism
The Economy is Doing Fine—It’s Just Different
There is a Reason Why Politicians Disappoint Us as Leaders
Business has no Business Getting in the Business of Government
In Defense of the National Debt
An Indictment of and Support for the Tea Party Movement
Light Bulbs and Liberals: The Threat to Individual Liberty
A Sane Approach to Solving the Budget and Debt Crisis
Turn Out the Lights – The Party’s Over!
American Capitalism has Failed and Needs to be Replaced
What’s Happening is not Class Warfare, but Classless Political Warfare
Is it Better to be a Maker or a Mechanic?
Is it Time to Get Government off the Back of Business and Let Business be Business?
Wall Street Occupiers Make it One Big Tea Party
In Wisconsin Somebody Moved the Cheese
All is Fair in Love and War – But not in Taxes
Obama Misses the Point and Fails the “Crucible of Leadership” Test
Leadership is Willingness to Step Up and Stand Out
“Doing the Right Thing” Gets More Lip Service Than the Blarney Stone
Regulations and Regulators Need Regulation
Needed: A Dose of Business Reality in Government
Election Results Portend Lessons in Leadership
Guilefulness in Government is Directly Proportional to the Gullibility of the Governed
Government is Not Working and the Election will Change Nothing
The Intrinsic Value of a Dysfunctional Government
Debt Reduction Talk is Like a Ride on a Merry-go-Round that Never Stops
Class Warfare Revisited with a Perspective
Regulations are Best When They Regulate What is Not Done, Not What is Done
A Loser can often be a Role Model for Winners
America Needs a Successful Business Leader to Solve the Problems … Or do We?
Romney is Getting Bum Rap for His Brand of Capitalism
Are Entitlement and Opportunity Mutually Exclusive to Effective Government
Nominating Santorum for President would Assure a Great Future for the Republicans
Regulations Run Amok Trying to Keep Muckers From Running Amok
Learn to Lead from Mitt Romney’s Failure to Lead
Supreme Court Should Invalidate, then Amputate Obamacare
The Differing Perspectives of Rangel and Schorr
What is Really Wrong with the Economy?
One Decade Down and Done -- Good Riddance
McCain Exposes Obama by using the Dreaded "S" Word
If Obama is a Socialist, What are We? ‘
(Last Updated: 1/21/13)