Saturday, August 19, 2017

A European Utility Re-Envisioning Energy: An Opportunity for Visionary Leadership

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When Eneco began a business called CrowdNett in which the company would sell large home-batteries to people having solar panels, the Dutch ...
Friday, August 18, 2017

The U.S. House of Representatives: An Aristocratic Democracy-Deficit?

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The abrupt resignation of Jesse Jackson, Jr., from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 only weeks after being re-elected gave Democra...

Pressuring Employees to Act as Lobbyists on the U.S. Debt: Ethical?

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How far a boss can ethically become involved in an employee’s political role as a citizen is a question perhaps more important than wheth...

Massey Mining: Beyond Regulations

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Massey Energy Co. owned the mine in West Virginia where 29 minors were killed in an explosion in 2010. Faulty water nozzles failed to stop...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

From Visionary Leadership to Management: Taking a Bite Out of Apple

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Founders and otherwise visionary leaders in business can be distinguished from managers, even though a manager may be running a company. F...

The Essence of Leadership

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In  The Essence of Leadership , leadership itself is reformulated in such a way that what emerges—the essence of leadership—is distinct fro...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

U.S. Government Debt: A Constitutional Moment?

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report in June 2011 indicating that the debt of the U.S. Government had reached a dangerous...

Nature's Racial Melting-Pot: The American Empire

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The 2010 U.S. census reignited the question of racial identity among multi-racial residents.  “I can’t fit in a single box on the census fo...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Drug Companies as Feeding Machines: Don't Feed the Sharks

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In 2008, drug companies raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. Th...

Van Rompuy as the European Council's First Extended-Term President

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“In a sense, Europe seemed to be living down to expectations. Earlier, the foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, warned against a 'mi...

Goldman Sachs: Working It

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Goldman Sachs’ (GS) board considered buying AIG in late June, 2008, so GS could use AIG’s premium float for capital (rather than becoming a...

Problems in American Executive Compensation: The Ethical Dimension

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According to The New York Post, 66% of the income growth in the United States between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans. In...

Democratic Protests in the Middle East: A Conflagration of Historic Proportions amid a Constancy in Human Nature?

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Perhaps by looking back on one's own time as though it were already historical, it is possible to assess whether what one is witnessing...

Does Opportunity Justify Economic Inequality?

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From 1993 to 2010, the incomes of the richest 1 percent of Americans grew 58 percent while the rest had a 6.4 percent increase.   In 2010, ...

Christianity and “Social Capitalism”

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The SEC charged Ephren Taylor with a fraudulent $11 million Ponzi scheme in April 2012. According to Reuters, “ Taylor fraudulently sold $...