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« Previous EntriesWHAT is the matter with Wall Street?????
Friday, January 30th, 2009Okay, let’s recap … just a few months ago, big Wall Street financial firms were begging for money from America’s taxpayers, claiming they were on the edge of meltdown. Congress rode to the rescue, passing a $700 billion bailout package to shore up the financial services industry. And now, we learn from the New York [...]
When you get great service, say so!
Thursday, January 29th, 2009My friend Sally got so caught up in watching the Inauguration Day celebration on television that it was almost six o’clock when she realized that she had nothing edible in the house for dinner. She drove to the supermarket, where there was a sale on king crab legs, and Sally asked for them. Luckily, the bright young [...]
Is Blagojevich blameless … or a blowhard?
Monday, January 26th, 2009Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has sought to fend off his pending impeachment by soliciting the sympathies of the American public. Claiming that the Illinois Senate’s hearing rules deny him the right to defend himself, Blagojevich has refused to participate in the impeachment hearing and, instead, booked a series of national talk show appearances. Blagojevich [...]
Geithner’s apology was an essential first step toward confirmation
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Would-be Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner took a drubbing in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Finance Committee last week over his failure to pay about $34,000 in income taxes. Not surprisingly, several members of the committee were reluctant to support his confirmation. (It can be tough to justify appointment of a candidate who allegedly couldn’t [...]
How will your company answer the President’s call?
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Yesterday, President Barack Obama broke through barriers erected over more than two centuries of racism to become the first U.S. President of African-American heritage … and then proceeded to say very little about it. President Obama certainly would have been within his rights to focus his inaugural address on this stunning achievement, and people of [...]
Workplace discrimination is not only unethical, it’s bad business!
Monday, January 19th, 2009It’s Martin Luther King Day, and a great time to take an honest look at your company’s employment practices. In the forty-five years since Doctor King delivered his legendary “I have a dream speech” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, many of the institutions that enforced “official” racial discrimination have either been dismantled or crumbled [...]
When it comes to business ethics, Kellogg is GRRRRR-EAT!!!
Friday, January 16th, 2009Major kudos go to food manufacturer Kellogg Co. for voluntarily asking stores to stop selling its Keebler and Austin brand peanut butter crackers. Kellogg took this step when one of its suppliers, Peanut Corp. of America, issued a recall of 21 lots of its peanut butter for possible salmonella contamination.
Peanut Corp. had little choice about [...]
Just how ethical is the weight loss industry?
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009It’s that time of the year again. Two weeks into January, how well have you kept your new year’s resolutions? If one of those resolutions was to lose weight, you may well have fallen off the wagon. Every year, millions of Americans vow to lose weight in the new year, but they rarely succeed in [...]
When it comes to apologies, intent matters!
Monday, January 12th, 2009It’s been interesting to see how many readers have checked out my most recent post about Neale Donald Walsch’s apology to fellow author Candy Chand for his unattributed publication of a story she had written on his Beliefnet.com blog. There have been a lot of comments on this incident, both on this site and elsewhere, [...]
Do you accept Neale Donald Walsch’s apology?
Friday, January 9th, 2009Neale Donald Walsch, bestselling author of the Conversations with God series, astonished his readers this week by shutting down his Beliefnet.com blog. Walsch’s final post consisted of a public apology to fellow author Candy Chand for taking a Christmas story she had previously published and posting it on his blog as his personal experience. According [...]
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