Posted on 07/17/2005 8:16:41 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
The first MBA President gets advice from B-school experts on how to manage the controversy surrounding the leak of a CIA agent's identity
Much has been made of the fact that George W. Bush is the first U.S. President to hold an MBA (Harvard Business School, class of '75). So how's this for a B-school management problem: You're the CEO. One of your most trusted and powerful subordinates has been implicated in an internal probe of leaking highly sensitive corporate secrets to the media.
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First, they would find out the TRUTH! They sure as hell wouldn't take the word of "reporters"!
IMPLICATED?? Where's their proof? Nowhere. Now this Liberals lunacy has spread to Business Week. What's next, ESPN?
Only implicated by the false charge. After all we know its the seriousness of the charge and not the truth that matters, right?
Jack Welch (former GE CEO) was on one of the cable business shows this weekend and said he would not fire Rove. He said you must stick by your great performers until it is proven that something wrong was done. He said companys deal with this all the time where a disgruntled employee makes claims and 99.9% they prove out to be false. He said the investigation is still ongoing and it would be inappropriate to fire Rove.
I trust Welch's opinion much more than a bunch of professors where most have never worked in "real" job.
Well, I think President Bush is a remarkably restrained CEO for not attacking Business Week for bigotry and factual dishonesty in its reporting. It is one of the skills needed for a CEO, especially the ultimate CEO, the President of the US, that he/she must have a thick skin and simply ignore most of the ankle-biters who would damage the Administration.
So the proper answer is, the question is falsely stated, and therefore does not deserve an answer as stated. But thank you for participating.
Congressman Billybob
CEOs would have fired Wilson for being a false witness and bringing false accusations.
First thing I would do as CEO is I would sue Business Weak for mega-millions in an RICO lawsuit for obvious coordinated libel and restraint of trade.
And they would have audited his Niger trip expenses for his personal boondoggle. They would have reviewed the building security video tapes and found out his wife came into the office on the weekend to type up her husband's report.
Di Meglio, a New Jersey native, is a reporter covering management education for BusinessWeek Online. One of her major projects now is writing a regular column about New York City for the Firenze-based magazine Tour & Food Italia that is written in Italian and English. She is a contributing writer for La Voce, the Italian Tribune and freelances for F and L Primo magazine, America & Italia Review, Ladies' Home Journal, Business Week, the wire service Metro News and Bergen Health and Life magazine. Her work has also appeared on iVillage.com, MTV.com, SoccerAge.com, Soccer365.com and lhj.com. She is reaching fluency in Italian (the standard language, not just the Napoletano dialect). A Catholic, she regularly prays for the well-being of her immediate family, nonni, aunts, uncles, cousins -- the many who live within a five-mile radius of her home in the States and those abroad. Now, if she could only snag a book deal, her life would be complete!
Why hasn't the CEO been fired?
Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's "cover" (even if she had not been a covert CIA agent at the time of the alleged "leaks")?
It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.
Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:
He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.
Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.
Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful ("hot") wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.
I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.
However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair.
And what does this have to do with Valerie Plame?
Forbes is a real business magazine.
That would be a scandal.
Please stop. You've SPAMmed us with that same post 192 times in less than 6 hours. You're being a pest, and that is now over-riding whatever value there WAS in that post of your. Enough already.
here, here .......
I actually wasted my time scrolling his posts and counting them. There are really 192 of them, as of the time I posted here. I also hit Abuse.
A month ago I got a publication from my alma mater. There was a gloating article about Elizabeth Bumiller, NYT's reporter on the White house beat. Guess they don't expect any donations from me.
Rove's statement to Novak: "Yeah, I heard that too" is light years away from offering confirmation one way or another about Valerie Plame's occupation.
In telling Novak that he too heard a rumor, Rove did not confirm one way or the other that such a rumor was true.
Now if Rove would have said, "Yeah, I understand that Wilson's wife works for the CIA" ...... well that would be a horse of a different color.
But if one confirms that they heard a rumor from someone else, that in itself confirms nothing and cannot be considered a leak in the first place.
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