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Shame On Our Apology Economy

Lead Change Blog

Last week the CEO of Wells Fargo, a bank that’s been around since 1852, testified before Congress about the egregious wrong-doings committed by employees in his company all in the name of meeting sales goals. The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,

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A Short History of Golden Parachutes

Harvard Business Review

Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news. And Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, already under fire for a fraudulent bank account scheme , has faced tough questions about his salary and the multimillion-dollar retirement package of Carrie Tolstedt, a key executive tied to the scandal.

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

There's looting your local superstore — and then there's, as Nobel Laureates Akerlof and Romer discussed in a paper now famous among geeks, there's looting a bank, a financial system, a corporation.or Their paper might be crudely summed up in the pithy line: "The best way to rob a bank is to own one.") an entire economy.