THANK YOU, “FAST COMPANY”
We, as a nation, should be thanking the editors, staff and management of America’s most sprightly business journal “Fast Company”. They are the first and only business oriented publication I know of which has ever published in full, open print and with worthy photographs of a “the Top ten bosses from Hell.”
If you seriously undertook to prepare such a list of the lousiest C.E.O’s of American business what names would you include? I picked three myself and I was a bit surprised to find that I knew four or five of them - even revered some
of them and admired some of them for career attainment and accomplishments against severe odds. Of the others on the list , I found I knew three fairly well, and for the other two I had to search out along the fringes of my mind -read ab of their dastardly deeds done before I could remember who they had been.
One thing more before we start to look at the list.
After reading the entire article, I realized that I had not come across anything I did not already know. Well, perhaps some small tid-bit, but I have known the major twists and turns. That mean I have a double standard. How do I live with it? How do I live with such a condition? It makes it appear as if we all do so, g some degree. Interesting. We can control such feelings while we admire some seriously flawed individual can’t we? Glance through the list, bellow in disagreement if you need to do so; get angry if that helps, voice disagreement loudly; brandish weapons if needed but read the list and the accusations.
Ready?
Martin Davis, Ivan Boesky. John D. Rockefeller, Armand Hammer, Henry Ford,
Walt Disney, Andre Fastow, Harold Green, Leona Helmsley, Al Dunlap.
For details concerning the above, up FastCompany.com Fast Take on your computer.It is done there as a slide show.
A.L.M. September 18, 2005 [c340wds]
