01 Jul
Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute inferior quality raw materials to save costs. You wonder: are they insane? Probably not. [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Psychology by: Stever
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17 Apr
I just ran across an article by Mark Cuban about CEO pay and how stock and options have distorted it beyond all recognition. I go a step further and suggest … well, read for yourself.
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Posted in Business, Leadership by: Stever
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28 Dec
Chris Matthews was just commenting that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was “a reminder of the dangerous world we all live in.”
In that moment, it struck me: we all live in a world of our own making. Oh, I don’t mean literally, though fans of The Secret may disagree. But our experience of the world is so [...]
Posted in Beliefs, Business, Communication, Leadership, Psychology by: Stever
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24 Jun
I’m not quite sure what to say. The Senate has voted to raise mileage standards to 35 mpg by the year 2020. U.S. auto folks claim it will never happen, as AutoBlog reports.
Is it just me, or are these folks crazy? Gas gas gone up 100% in the last 10 years, and 30% in [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Politics by: Stever
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25 Nov
In a recent New York Times article on CEO pay, the reporter closely examines pay practices where companies use peer groups to justify CEO pay. But they don’t disclose who those peers are, allowing CEOs to inflate their pay by carefully choosing the peer group.
That all sounds fine and dandy, but I must ask: what [...]
Posted in Business, Leadership, Misc by: Stever
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21 Jul
Being betrayed by those around you is just no fun.
I was watching the finale of Bravo’s reality-based TV show, “Top Chef” the other night. The finalists were Tiffany and Harold. Tiffany lost. Her food was good. She took some risks, and some of her dishes paid off. But the other Chefs unanimously said she ran [...]
Posted in Building community, Business, Leadership, Politics by: Stever
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