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Written by Daniel T. Bloom
I recently posted a blog entry entitled "open letter to the CEO" and one of the readers took me to task for posting something with a misspelling because I used the term Stakeholder instead of Shareholder.
While we might be talking semantics here, I thin for every organization there is tremendous potential to change the focus from shareholder to stakeholder.
Written by Buzz Rooney
I don't know if you've read about or been paying attention to the case out of Sanford, FL about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin ... But I have. A lot. So I need to get my thoughts out about it, even if it doesn't fit into this month's theme.
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old young black man who was killed walking home from a convenience store on February 26 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who said the teenager attacked him and that he killed the teen in self-defense. Read more...
Written by Chris Fields, MLHR
During a recent conversation with the amazing Buzz Rooney, she said to me; People who suck, don’t know they suck. I had an Oprah moment. Simple and true. Think about it for a moment, I know there are things that I’m good at and then there are other things that I am not good at, quite frankly I suck at them. For instance, I found some old items that I wrote years ago and I thought, “Wow that wasn’t good at all.” Ever buy some clothing and thought they were great but in retrospect…meh?
Written by Daniel T. Bloom
Almost everyday you can pick up a copy of the newspaper or turn on the TV News and hear about an organization which has announced that it is cutting jobs to lower costs. In this current economic climate I can totally understand wanting to reduce costs. However I ask you what is your goal - to sustain the organization for the long haul or to satisfy the stockholders for a quick response to economic "dire" warnings?
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Written by Chris Fields
“One who has sold more than their labor to the corporation; one who has forsaken personal values and constitution for corporate $$”
Oh yes, they exist and they're everywhere. A tale as old as time, the trick game, thanks to Herman Cain’s questionable relationships this was recently placed in the forefront of the headlines.
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At $22 per quarter-ounce, a Hewlett-Packard color ink-jet cartridge is more expensive, by weight, than imported Russian caviar.
