December 30, 2007 Edition

Welcome to the December 30, 2007 edition of Corporate Vigilance.

Happy New Year!

Mark Riffey presents Does your business run at the speed of trust? posted at Business is Personal, saying, "During our campout this past weekend at Lake McDonald in Glacier Park, I had an incident that reminded me of Covey's article about the "speed of trust" which if you think about it, speaks to everything from day to day business to systemic health care issues in the United States..."

Bonnie Krueger presents What Are Good Steps For Debt Repayment Plans? posted at Student Loan Consolidation.

Tupelo Kenyon presents How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Through Intuition posted at Tupelo Kenyon, saying, "Intuition feels good. That should be enough of a clue it's something that can be trusted. But, our culture has done a thorough job of instilling doubt about the wisdom of following our instincts. Instead, we are taught to think things through and be logical. These mental tools are important, but they were never intended to be used instead of intuition. They work better when used in conjunction with intuition. If we are open to it, we get nudges and insights to move us in the direction of our greatest joys, our most valuable contributions, and our most satisfying life. Those quiet whispers and gentle taps on the shoulder are examples of inner guidance in action – intuition. (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus songs with lyrics related to each article – all free."

Jenny presents November Earnings Report posted at the so called me.

Leon Gettler presents Phone companies and the surveillance state posted at Sox First, saying, "The US Senate is set to vote on giving phone carriers retroactive immunity for surveillance of US citizens. Just a little something to make life easier for the National Security Agency (NSA). The phone companies are spying on Americans."

Leon Gettler presents BP, serial offender posted at Sox First, saying, "The US might have already entered a recession. Here are some tips for surviving it."

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December 16, 2007 Edition

Welcome to the December 16, 2007 edition of Corporate Vigilance.

Tupelo Kenyon presents Ego or Soul? Who's Driving? posted at Tupelo Kenyon, saying, "Even though I identify my sense of self with soul, there seems to be another “something” inside forever jockeying for position and making its presence known. This is the ego.

What’s the difference? How can you know which one is in charge? What are their characteristics? Since I prefer peace to mayhem and contentment to perpetual, blind striving, my goal is to keep soul in the driver’s seat as often as possible. Instead of an either/or situation, I like the idea of soul and ego peacefully coexisting in a manner that best serves the greater good. (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus songs with lyrics related to each article – all free.)"

Alvaro Fernandez presents Cognitive Health, Aging and Baby Boomers posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, "How baby boomers will revolutionize more aspects of Corporate America that we typically think of, and why we'll need to keep an eye on what large companies do"

Leon Gettler presents Push to make BP pay for explosion posted at Sox First, saying, "The proposed $50 million penalty for BP for its negligence that led to the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 workers is letting the British-based petroleum giant off lightly, according to court filings."

Charles H. Green presents How To Get Your Industry Regulated, in 6 Easy Lessons posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Be out of control and deny it! No one will notice!"

Charles H. Green presents Ben Stein vs. Goldman Sachs: Market-Makers, Brokers, and Trusted Advisors posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Was Goldman Sachs unethical to be heeding the same products they were happily selling customers?"

Louise Manning presents Does your Organisation have a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy? posted at The Human Imprint.

Edith presents If You Don’t Love Your Job… posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Rebecca Wallace-Segall presents A Comedy Writer on Strike posted at a community of young writers in new york city.

Tupelo Kenyon presents Consciously Programming Your Subconscious Mind Before Sleep posted at Tupelo Kenyon, saying, "We are all continuously feeding our minds with the words we read, the audio we hear, and the images we see on the screen. The ideas we expose our minds to immediately before going to sleep are powerful. They sink deep into our subconscious mind as we ease into the alpha state of consciousness, as part of the sleep cycle. Here, the subconscious mind reviews the ideas over and over, not because they are the most important, but simply because they were the most recent. For a life of excellence, you must be the proactive, deliberate, aware, and conscious gatekeeper and feed your mind on purpose. (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus songs with lyrics related to each article – all free.)"

Leon Gettler presents Siemens: the scandal that won't go away posted at Sox First, saying, "The Siemens bribery scandal won’t go away. Its new finance chief has lost his job even before he started it and the company is in trouble for bribing military officers in Norway."

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December 2, 2007 Edition

Welcome to the December 2, 2007 edition of Corporate Vigilance.

Larry Russell presents Where's Waldo? - The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance. posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog, saying, "The effort to find those few supposedly superior money managers willing to sell their services sufficiently cheaply is a costly, time consuming, and futile, "Where’s Waldo?," searching exercise for the individual investor. Many money managers will claim to be superior and few or none actually will be. If such superior money managers did exist, then there should be dozens or hundreds of them who prove their superiority year after year after year. Unfortunately, the scientific finance literature indicates that this is not the case. This year’s star money manager tends to be next year’s average or laggard money manager."

Allen Taylor presents Business Investment Strategies That Work Every Time posted at Investing World Today, saying, "The secret to investment success is the consistent application of time-proven strategies, not the use of complex, hard-to-understand investment vehicles created by investment bankers out to take your money!"

Carole G. McKay presents Shame on Yahoo posted at McKay Today, saying, "A look at how Yahoo sold it's integrity and, in the process, caused the imprisonment of two young men. A further look at how we as consumers can vote with our pocketbooks."

David Kam presents Psychological Effect of 99-Cent posted at MarketingDeviant.com.

Leon Gettler presents Curveball questions posted at Sox First, saying, "Here is a list of curveball questions to ask companies at annual meetings."

Steve Bainbridge presents Why Starbucks Doesn’t Franchise posted at Professor Bainbridge's Journal, saying, "This post - Why Starbucks Doesn’t Franchise - asks why Starbucks uses a company owned store model, while Subway uses franchises. What are the transaction cost differences that explain the difference in business models?"

David Kam presents Beautiful Maiden Business Strategy posted at MarketingDeviant.com.

The Career Counselor presents Notes on Why Humor Works in the Workplace posted at ask the CareerCounselor, saying, "Although many workers believe joking around at the office should be largely avoided, humor at work is increasingly regarded as a very positive thing. A recent study from the University of Missouri-Columbia entitled “The Case for Developing New Research on Humor and Culture in Organizations: Toward a Higher Grade of Manure” found that humor positively impacts cohesiveness and communication. Professor Chris Robert and doctoral student Wan Yan examined theories on humor and integrated hundreds of literature sources from a wide variety of fields in order to reach their conclusions. Besides increasing office bonding, their research found that both sharing and enjoying something funny can boost morale at work; humor also increases overall productivity and creativity. In addition, the ability to appreciate humor, and the ability to laugh and make others laugh seem to be associated with intelligence. In other words humor is not only normal, but a necessity, at many workplaces. Read on for some tips and ideas about incorporating humor into your professional life."

Leon Gettler presents Wal-Mart scores low on corporate equality posted at Sox First, saying, "Wal-Mart continues to come in very low on the Corporate Equality Index 2008 which assess companies on how they go about treating their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GBLT) workers."

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