esp. for Alex...was: Still More Snot chapter 2....The Snot Report..... 526

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, alexy

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It and much much more that I've read is good enough for me.

You certainly implied that they were no worse than anyone else. And, that is demonstrably false. Maybe not to you, but I've read enough from lots of places and the continual story in the WSJ boils down to CEOs (and their brethern) are overpaid, overpriviledged, overprotected, overegoed, and underperforming.

They're all in the same boat.

^^^^^^^^^^^ Generalizations. Mostly by people who better studied the CEO ethics and behaviors than I.

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Actually, the ethics study pointed out two subpopulations of CEO; one was better than the other. You missed that. See below.

Re read the article, please. Remember, you are supposed to do this: Ready, Aim, Fire.. and not Ready, Fire, Aim.

Yeah... they're all a bunch of dufuses.

Nah, they're all a bunch of overpaid, overpriviledged, overprotected, underperforming dufuses. By definition.

How about YOU naming just a few real human heros who are CEOs and what they did to deserve YOUR fawning over them?

That doesn't say poo about the crap they pull off, the money they stuff in their pockets.

Nah... it wouldn't matter. Long ago, I just thought they were "suits" but, there was even a study I remember from years ago, that analyzed them psychologically and found they are also likely to be power mongers and control freaks, too. There have even been articles in the WSJ where even BODs have discussed extreemism in the ranks of executives as well as a lot of bad behavior. Kazarian, at Sun Beam before Al Dunlap, got so much writeup in the WSJ that it totally amazed me he got away with it as much as he did. Only, chainsaw was worse.

But, oh no, you wouldn't want to discuss such facts; you'd want to talk about your personal (anecdotal) impressions (not serious evaluations) and try to palm-off these SOBs as "just ordinary people."

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I can tell you about similar stories that I heard but that is clearly racism. Being that I am white and most CEOs are also white, and a subset of the "white race" I am not talking about racist issues. However, in all history that I have read so far, powerful leaders have materialized themselves out of the woodwork and got into powerful positions by means of subterfuge, trickery, and crime. In a large fraction of the histories of past leaders (including kings & pharos), something like 30-50% of changes in leaders took place through military attack (certainly, by any modern conventional civilized consideration, unmeritable) from external points of origin or by internal liquidate or other violent manuverings by blood relatives, or people physically and officially nearby, or even highly ambitious females who happened to be a spouse of an emperor or king. There were those who became kings by getting close enough to shove a daggar into the existing kings back, took the dead kings clothes off and put them on himself, and declaired "I am your new king" and got away with it.

Just as there is a wide variety of criminal, there is a wide variety of dangerous persons who seek out and manage, often, to aquire power and-or wealth through means which are broadly unfair. The history books are full of stories of Hitlers, Hanibals, Khans, etc., who played every trick and every dirty trick to get what they wanted irregardless of what else they did.