A Step-by-Step Guide for Success With campaign finance reform, never-ending political corruption and the emergence of the increased power of the citizenry using online technology, this means politics is due for a grassroots-based upheaval. If not, it should be. With that in mind, this step-by-step guide to launching a grass roots political campaign is a [...]
May 22, 2009
Why CEO Salaries are so High Read Part I and Part II. Important facts about CEO salaries tend to be ignored by the news media. The back-story, the realities of CEO compensation, are far more complex than what can fit into a 30-second series of sound-bites on the evening news, and the complexities are often [...]
May 21, 2009
Why the News Media Attack Corporate Executives Read Part I here. The reason for such outcry about CEO behavior is not because what CEOs do is arrogant – it just appears that way. It is not because their salaries are out of line – if that were the case, celebrities’ salaries, which are higher on [...]
May 20, 2009
The Story Behind Automaker CEO PR Disasters There’s nothing quite like a news story in which a corporate CEO is photographed in handcuffs. As the perceived pinnacle of global malfeasance, today’s CEO is widely vilified, and often for good reason. Or so it is assumed. Nothing illustrated the wide disconnect between CEOs and the masses [...]
May 5, 2009
It is astounding to stop and reflect on the amount of misinformation around us. It goes beyond our ingrained tendencies toward misperception, misunderstanding and the difficulty in shifting our beliefs when confronted with contrary evidence. Each of these traits is natural and we are subject to these tendencies even when aware of them. So we [...]
June 1, 2009
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