“Every year, the major business magazines put out their annual surveys of big business in America. You have the Fortune 500, the Forbes 400, the Forbes Platinum 100, the International 800 — among others. These lists rank big corporations by sales, assets, profits and market share. The point of these surveys is simple — to identify and glorify the biggest and most profitable corporations. The point of the list contained in this report, The Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade — is to focus public attention on a wave of corporate criminality that has swamped prosecutors offices around the country.”

“Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo — Five Half-truths of Business — as a wake-up call.”

“Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo — Five Half-truths of Business — as a wake-up call.”

“Employees expecting to get away for a summer vacation might be in for a rude surprise. There’s no escape from the office. Employers are requiring employees to keep in touch while on vacation. And more workers are forgoing vacations entirely because of financial concerns or too much work at the office.”

“One of the most profound statements made on the subject of positioning comes from Louis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. When Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which path to take, he responds, ‘if you don’t care where you’re going, it doesn’t make a difference which path you take.’ So it is with too many company’s marketing communications programs. Without direction or focus, a business or organization often acts like a multi-headed creature — speaking from many mouths, saying nothing and going nowhere.”