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Category Archives: Business Health
Childish CEO’s whine about adult supervision
It’s time to take the gloves off! As a former CEO, I’m ashamed of the juvenile whining of CEO’s like JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt, Coca Cola’s Muhtar Kent, Intel’s Paul Otellini and Forbes Magazine’s Steve Forbes … Continue reading
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My core beliefs about business, politics and the economy (1)
This post and future ones describe some of my core beliefs about business, politics and the economy by answering some fictitious Frequently Asked Questions. I’ve actually been asked these questions, but not frequently or in some cases not even recently. … Continue reading
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BP’s Board is typical: clueless, spineless and still not serious about reform
By replacing CEO Tony Hayward with Robert Dudley, BP’s board once again appears to be doing its job and serious about reforming the company’s safety-last culture. Reality is starkly different. Two facets of its change-of-command clearly demonstrate that this board … Continue reading
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Lightweight Oil executives produce worthless disaster plans
This week the executives of the other major oil companies (besides BP) presented their oil spill contingency plans to Congress. Several things were immediately evident: the plans were all grossly inadequate and carelessly done, they were all developed by the … Continue reading
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Reply to John Napier’s open letter to President Obama defending BP’s Tony Hayward
John Napier Chairman of RSA Group London, England Dear John: Please forgive this open letter, but your letter to President Obama comes across as somewhat prejudicial and personal. Actually, the personal part may be appropriate but the prejudicial part is … Continue reading
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Wall Street Executives: unprofitable bureaucrats
Business mythology tells us that leaders of large organizations are particularly talented managers, carefully selected by experts from a pool of exceptional people, and must know things the rest of us don’t just to be able to manage behemoth corporations. … Continue reading
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