Here’s the cover of the latest issue of Conde Nast Portfolio, which contains several articles on the topic of rebuilding the trust that has been decimated by our financial meltdown, corporate scandals, Ponzi schemer Madoff (and now the Stanford Group), and other debacles.
For a how-to guide on building and rebuilding trust, we of course recommend [...]
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The late 80’s Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” nicely captures the larger messes that we’ve always been dealing with as Americans, and I think is very appropriate for our current times as well. the latest wave of bankruptcies, companies that paid outlandish executive bonuses at the same as conducting massive layoffs, [...]
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Update 10-28-08 from the Wall Street Journal:
Senator Ted Stevens, a legislative architect of the Bridge to Nowhere, was found guilty yesterday by a District of Columbia jury of taking illegal cash and gifts from an Alaskan oil executive. One would be hard put to identify anyone other than the senior Senator from Alaska — perhaps [...]
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I waste enough time reading the headlines of the WSJ and NYT, and their Op-Ed columnists, but it looks like I’ll be wasting less time from now on, as I’m disgusted with the latest banter between David Brooks and Gail Collins. Here are just a couple of excerpts from today’s column:
David Brooks:
I don’t know [...]
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