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Dean harped on his usual themes yesterday, railing on the Bush administration and accusing the President and his alleged corporate cronies—“Ken Lay and the boys at Enron”—for subverting the will of the people. But he also sought to distance himself from his Democratic competitors, faulting them for not opposing Bush with enough vigor...
...national economy is shrinking by at least 15 percent a year, as it has done for six years straight. Schools lack teachers and textbooks. Hospitals hardly function, deprived of basic medicines, supplies, nurses and physicians. Most gas stations lay idle. There is no paper on which to print bank notes, and people stand in long lines trying to obtain cash from banks. Unemployment is over 80 percent, and many hundreds of thousands of farm workers are without any work whatsoever...
...performance targets less than 75% of the time and only rarely blow through them by a wide margin, says Pearl Meyer, an executive compensation consultant. Yet since Grasso took over in 1995, the exchange has far exceeded its targets every year, documents show. That suggests the targets are a lay-up, Meyer says. Frank Ashen, executive vice president of human resources at the exchange, says that's not the case. The targets, he says, are designed to "make the organization stretch." One thing is sure: they stretched...
...wasn't just the decline in tourism that whacked this city. Residents weren't going out, and many restaurants had to temporarily close their doors, lay off staff and hope that the virus was subdued before the beer went flat. Now the clatter of china and the clink of wineglasses can once more be heard around town at establishments like Vong, atop the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and Kaetsu at the Grand Hyatt...
What’s been the response from business education? Most business schools are scrambling to lay on more ethics and leadership courses, but like ancient emperors oblivious to the pain they inflict, this amounts to little more than playing the fiddle while Rome burns. After all, my peers and I have spent the last quarter century educating a generation of managers to lead organizations that are mistrusted and resented by the majority of people who depend upon them. Where is our sense of urgency and accountability? We should be rethinking every assumption behind our purpose, message and methods...