My last white paper was about the faux pas of CEOs in crisis, but in writing that paper I started thinking about some of the biggest mistakes CEOs, presidents and business owners make that result in crises. Since you may not be facing a crisis right now – and I hope you never are – [...]
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Not Keeping It in Your Pants can be Very Expensive
Posted in Business Laughs, tagged bankruptcy, Bill Clinton, CEO, family, Monica Lewinsky, president, United States on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here’s something stupid that CEOs, presidents and business owners do: they fail to keep it in their pants. The biggest case in recent memory concerned the dear old president of these United States, William Jefferson Clinton – or Ol’ Willy as the stories will one day be told. His failure to keep it locked down [...]
“I Would Like to Say That Your Jobs Are Safe”
Posted in Business Laughs, tagged business comics, fired, layoffs, lost job, pink slip, unemployment on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To a lot of people out there, this is no laughing matter (though thank you for the chuckle, Working Daze). Their jobs are on the line or long gone. They’re out of work, looking for work or at least brushing up their resumes. If you’re one of these people, it’s hard to give you concrete [...]
Lions, Tigers and Creditors – Oh, my!
Posted in Business Laughs, tagged business cartoon, creditors, trapped in the desert on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written before about optimism, but I think this cartoon catches a different element of the word. Note the suited man (or man-like figure) buried up to his waist in the midst of a barren desert. Another soul is not in sight, yet he declares, “Someone will come.” Not likely, my friend, not likely. As [...]
Read the Suggestions in the Suggestion Box
Posted in An Ally's Advice, Business Laughs, tagged business laughs, cartoon, communication, employee satisfaction, management, suggestion box on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This cartoon makes me chuckle because it makes me think about all those companies that I go into where the CEO or President isn’t listening to anyone in the entire organization – and that’s to his detriment. You have to have good communication up and down the line or you won’t know about the myriad [...]
The Incentive Plan? Don’t Screw up or You’re Fired
Posted in Business Laughs, tagged David Waisglass, Farcus, Gordon Couthart, incentive plan, management on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love this cartoon. This is another one of those that’s been hanging in my office for a decade and a half. This is NOT my mindset – that if you screw up you’re fired. I think it’s a shame when things are that way. However, as someone who’s been a part of hundreds of [...]
Never Ask about Severance Pay
Posted in Business Laughs, tagged business cartoon, business laughs, David Waisglass, Farcus, Gordon Coulthart on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a hilarious Farcus cartoon that I cut out of the paper 17 years ago and have stuck up in my office. Every time I look at it I laugh. Sometimes, and I hate to be the one doing it, I have to give people – and entire divisions – the ax. That’s never [...]
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