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The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Humility Ability

Yesterday, I posted an entry about an interview in which Lorin Maazel, music director of the New York Philharmonic, mentioned humility as a key leadership trait. In the October issue of Harvard Business Review, social psychologist ...READ»

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Speedometer

Going Fast. Going Slow. Going Nowhere.READ»

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Make the Buck, Then Pass It

We attend the opening arguments in the cases of Frank Quattrone and Dennis Kozlowski, and learn that, hey, these kingpins were merely powerless cogs (just like us).READ»

Spin Yourself

"On each gig, you must be marketing your worth, marketing Me Inc. You can go too far (think Dennis Kozlowski or Martha Stewart), but you constantly have to spin-doctor. If you don't, you have what I call 'engineer's ...READ»

Spin Yourself

"On each gig, you must be marketing your worth, marketing Me Inc. You can go too far (think Dennis Kozlowski or Martha Stewart), but you constantly have to spin-doctor. If you don't, you have what I call 'engineer's mentality'--and I ...READ»

Spin Yourself

"On each gig, you must be marketing your worth, marketing Me Inc. You can go too far (think Dennis Kozlowski or Martha Stewart), but you constantly have to spin-doctor. If you don't, you have what I call 'engineer's mentality'--and I ...READ»

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Well Worth It?

Buckingham Palace released their annual report estimating that the royal family costs each person in Britain 60p per year. An expense debated by the British people every year. The annual justification is that the royal family ...READ»

Banking Industry Lessons Learned

Why droves of socially conscious consumers are fleeing larger banks for smaller, regional players.READ»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

Court Case Studies

In an interesting bit of juxtaposition, today's USA Today features two articles about high-profile court cases involving CEOs. In one, Thor Valdmanis reports on the closing arguments in Credit Suisse First Boston financier Frank ...READ»

Executives on Trial

Since the release of "The 5 Paths to Persuasion" in April, much of my consulting work has focused in two areas: 1) Helping clients hire the right executive for their company in terms of decision-style (Charismatic, Thinker, Skeptic, ...READ»

Capitalism, Meet Globalism

Capitalism has met the enemy, and it is capitalism. Just ask the pharmaceutical industry.READ»

Speedometer

Best Analysis of business excess "It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in generations past. It is that the avenues to express greed had grown so enormously." - Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, testifying ...READ»

Culture

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

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One Tough Assignment

When CEO Ed Breen took over at Tyco, he fired the very board that had hired him. And that was just the start.READ»

Is Travel Your Weak Spot?

Can the Sarbanes-Oxley Act positively affect your corporate travel policies and practices? Here's how -- and why.READ»

Power

"I've never seen a time like this," says Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News and, for the past 20 years, one of the greatest architects of power in the country. Ailes has a gift: He knows what makes people stars. He's most ...READ»

Size is Not a Strategy

The faster big business cleans up its ethical mess, the sooner we can address the real crisis of capitalism. Giant companies dominate the landscape -- from media to medicine, banking to broadband. But talented people don't want to work for them, customers hate doing business with them, and Wall Street doesn't want to invest in them. A candid appraisal of why so many big companies (even the honest ones) don't work -- and some radical ideas for reform.READ»

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Bye-Bye Bernie

So much for the dummy defense. Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom, was convicted today on all nine charges brought against him. I must confess to being pretty surprised--not because I thought he was innocent, but because I sat ...READ»

The Art of the Anti-Apology

Business has had a lot to apologize for. But is anyone actually owning up? We decipher executive remorse codes.READ»

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Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

CEOs in the Slammer

This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»

Brand You Survival Kit

When Tom Peters first wrote about Brand You, it was cool. Now it's life or death.READ»