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  • Poor Performance Often Linked to Excessive Executive Pay
    AI, as I recall, it was the CEO of P&G, who was so outspoken about the need for a new generation of American workers who were better educated and more flexible, during the down-sizing that happened during the 1990's. While I haven't tried to research the individuals involved, either then or now, one now has to wonder if the need for change might have been slightly mis-placed. What goes around, often comes around again, but with a slightly different emphasis.
    Dec 09 13:10 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Poor Strategy Is Costly
    Very well conceived and presented, and a super concept. (Now if we could only get corporate leaders to buy-in to this concept.)

    Your examples are spot-on, and especially so with the drug companies. The money they have spent on advertising has been largely wasted, and could have been much better spent on research. While they waste funds on this promotional practice, many much needed new drugs could be found and developed with the same funds.

    No doubt this current economic down-turn will prompt some corporate soul-searching and changes in 'strategy', but lets all hope that the CEO's who eventually emerge will approach the new corporate era with a new spirit of 'strategy'.

    Many thanks for presenting this concept, John Singer.
    Dec 03 07:18 am |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Aid for the Automakers? You Decide!
    I don't like it, but I agree with the author's stance, i.e., some aid, but with lots of provisions that would come with a cost to management, unions, debtholders, and of course, shareholders as well.

    To not do anything, is to risk something dark and deep, and I don't want to go there.
    Nov 20 08:43 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Future of Ethanol
    John, please define the term 'Sweet Sorghum'. Is this the tall (6ft.) 'cane' I saw being grown for cattle feed in Kansas when I grew up in the 1940-50's? Or is this the shorter version, 'Milo', grown all over the western Midwest for grain? The terminology is causing some confusion in my mind. Many thanks!

    I worked in the feed industry for several decades, and if I don't understand the terminology, there must be many others in the same category.
    Nov 13 07:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Political Energy Policy Just for Laughs
    A very good and accurate review. And those are far and few between in this enviornment.
    Sep 11 08:11 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
    Thank you, PaulK, but regardless of the tax amounts, the point is still the same. The tax will have to be replaced, in some fashion, it seems to me. Our roads are not being maintained, with the present tax structure, and this will only make that situation worse.
    Aug 26 11:48 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
    What to do about the lost taxes? If we sell CNG at $1/gal equivalent, and currently state, local, and federal taxes on gasoline are about $1.60, where will all the money come from to replace the lost taxes?

    Just a thought.

    I agree with the concept, but am just thinking ahead to the next problem. Replacing the lost taxes will have to be addressed at some point.
    Aug 26 09:01 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sick and Tired of Financials, Carmakers Blaming Everyone but Themselves
    Are there any recommendations or suggestions here? Nice thoughts, but I could get that from a poetry book.
    Aug 22 08:28 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Sinking Slowly into the Sunset
    User 223180: 'I agree we should remove the tariff on importing ethanol from Brazil and Latin America. We need to force the oil companies to provide E85'.

    Why not just repeal the ethanol mandate, and let the free market decide what is best for all of us. If ethanol can compete in a completely free market, then I'm all for it, but we must get the gov't out of this business, so we can see what really works. Forcing the oil companies to do anything, is not using our free market system to our advantage, and is in fact part of the problem that we are facing today. Had we not 'Forced' the ethanol mandate down our throats, we would already be seeing the free market provide some alternative solutions, instead of the gov't mandated system we have today.

    Re: T. Boone Pickens and his plan, IMHO, it is the best and only really complelling plan yet presented. It may well have some flaws, but it is well ahead of whatever is in second place. However, enough of this talk. Let's get started now!
    Aug 10 21:30 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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