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McCain's formative years

"I think it's worth keeping in mind that the formative years for McCain were spent in the U.S. Navy (and a Vietnamese POW camp), a place where the cardinal values are duty, honor, service, and sacrifice for the greater good"

Sounds like the cardinal values a publicly-held company's CEO is supposed to have: duty, honor, service, and sacrifice for the greater good of the shareholder, rather than weasel, inflate, drain, and parachute for the greater good of the C-suite.

Eugene Franco of NY @ Apr 19, 2008 01:18:34 AM

CEO COMPENSATION

So here's a challenge:

CONTROL in America's boardrooms has shifted for the worse over the past 30 years. As a result, due diligence and oversight are out the window. We are now enjoying the results of this self-serving governance.

Instead of lauding adulation on CEO's, how about pressing for restructure of their boards of directors. All of them.

"WE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF YOUR COMPANIES...... >>


http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-to-ceos-of-fortune-1000-cos.html


The sooner the better, before the cracks in the system become too big for putty.

Common sense needs more than a nudge here. BLOGGERS let's blog the boardrooms into common sense with a little persuasion.

PacificGatePost of WA @ Apr 16, 2008 21:31:44 PM

So here's a challenge:

CONTROL in America's boardrooms has shifted for the worse over the past 30 years. As a result, due diligence and oversight are out the window. We are now enjoying the results of this self-serving governance.

Instead of lauding adulation on CEO's, how about pressing for restructure of their boards of directors. All of them.

"WE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF YOUR COMPANIES...... >>


http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-to-ceos-of-fortune-1000-cos.html


The sooner the better, before the cracks in the system become too big for putty.

Common sense needs more than a nudge here. BLOGGERS let's blog the boardrooms into common sense with a little persuasion.

PacificGatePost of WA @ Apr 16, 2008 21:29:38 PM

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