Look Out! It's the Crazy Bosses Podcast
The Zorro of Corporate Communication is back. Watch out you profit mongering psychopaths. It's Fortune Magazine columnist ... Stanley Bing!
 Stanley Bing
The Bully. The Paranoid. The Narcissist. The Wimp. The Disaster Hunter. Stanley Bing dissects them all, and reveals the level of contagion each form of craziness carries.
Last year, in Rome, Inc., The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation, Stanley Bing told the story of a family business that prospered through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification - at a high cost in shattered lives. The most brilliant of the Roman executives, Julius Caesar, invented the comb-over, according to Bing.
In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leaves the once-proud but now overextended and corrupt parent company at the mercy of less-civilized operations that previously cringed at the grandeur of the corporate brand. Great material for Hollywood epics, The Roman Empire had one hell of a run. But, as with most organizations lead by psychopaths, (Enron, WorldCom come to mind), it came to a rather messy end.
In Stanley's new book (actually, an old book, he first wrote Crazy Bosses 15 years ago), "but I was so boring and pedantic! So... jejune. I read it now and I cringe," he says. So he re-wrote it. Of course, looking over the past decade, there's a whole new batch of crazy bosses to profile. About Bill Gates, Bing writes; "Now in the process of mutating into post-executive Yoda status." Peter Clayton interviewed Stanley in New York.
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Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means To You
A Big-Picture Podcast with industry expert, Jason Makansi
"Our electricity rates are going to skyrocket. We're not going to see just modest increases in most parts of the country, they're going to increase substantially because of all of these factors - and the brain drain is just one of them - but a very important one." Jason Makansi
 Writing in the Wall Street Journal, William Tucker wrote about Jason Makansi's new book, Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means To You, (published by Wiley & Co.); "Most people don't realize that skyrocketing global energy demand and economic growth severely affect the supply of electricity. Between production (power plants) and delivery is an antiquated, "third-world" transmission grid that is in desperate need of hardening against breakdowns, terrorist attacks, inadequate carrying capacity, and operational obsolescence. And while electricity doesn't hold the headlines or dramatic power of oil, the ability to ensure its uninterrupted supply at a reasonable price is even more essential to global survival and prosperity. Lights Out is today's most detailed, in-depth examination of this largely unreported looming energy crisis. Written by one of the world's top electricity industry experts, this powerful book covers numerous hot button economic and political issues-free markets versus regulation; energy independence versus foreign imports; nuclear power, global warming, and other environmental issues; and much more." (Click read more for links)
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Making Sense of the Hedge Fund Meltdown
A Podcast with Frank Armstrong, founder and CEO, Investor Solutions
 Frank Armstrong Tranches, CDO's - ABX, going long, going short. Sub-prime. If your trying to make sense of the hedge fund mess and what the implications for the economy might be, Frank Armstrong is here to tell it like it is. "Junk by any other name is junk." Which sounds a lot different from "High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund."
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