Oh, glorious Black Friday – the much-awaited day after Thanksgiving, when retailers open their doors at 4 a.m., 6 a.m. and so on. Hordes of shoppers rush in to the retail floors to snap up bargains. Bringing bright smiles to...

No free lunch! No free lunch! No free lunch! We should paste this phrase on imported goods, post it in classrooms and living rooms, and slap a sticker on the front door of retail stores. And let's teach this to our kids when...

For years after WW II the American Dollar was the currency of choice around the world -- in little Costa Rica the dollar is still welcomed by cab drivers and hotel bellhops and merhants. But for how long...as the dollar continues...

Wise business leaders keep their eye on the state attorneys general -- if the federal government can't or won't move to protect consumers, the AGs often will make the moves. Investigations and oversight can begin in an...

Gather round, kiddies, for a nostalgic view of the airline industry and its exciting early days. Airlines and the cities they headquarter in are very importawnt business partners! Back in our early journalistic days we were "an...

Commentary on Corporate Governance and Accountability... Three cheers for Chicago United -- for highlighting the issues and sending a list of qualified men and women of color to the executives and board chairs at Fortune 1000...

Commentary on Corporate Governance, Investing and Political Accountability. Watch this trend closely -- could be a freight train pounding through Corporate America in proxy season 2008 and beyond. ("Last year, a Mason-Dixon...

Commentary on Accountability -- and Building and Preserving Trust. Good advice / information sharing from author Steve Watkins in IDB for tomorrow's leaders of corporate, public and social sector organizations. And for each of...

Commentary on Accountability -- or lack thereof, in several places! This story SCREAMS off the pages of the newspaper -- read me! This episode is all about Accountability! Or lack of...enough to go around. A local physician may...

Commentary on Wall Street - Main Street relations...and attitudes...and polling results. First read the classic work, "Other People's Money" by Louis Brandeis (published 1933). (Subtitled, "...and how the bankers use it!")Judge...

We've said it here in this space before -- keep your eye on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in New York State. Politically attuned, focused, risk-taker (taking on bigger opponents), experienced (he ran HUD in the Clinton era and...

Re: Yahoo! and its current problems with disclosure of confidential customer information about users (journalists) to China officialdom. We still are a nation based on the rule of law and Yahoo! enjoys tremendous benefits doing...

"Optics" -- a popular new buzzword in business circles -- meaning the appearance of things and the impressions made...the optics of this are troubling. There are legal aspects to government officials' behaviors and there are...

So CEOs and "C" suite execs, here's your question of the day --Do we center our organization and develop and refine its group and individual behaviors around a values system -- being truthful, acting from a moral foundation (much...

This opinion piece ("op-ed") by Jesse Jackson in the Chicago Sun-Times is very direct (you know what he is unhappy about) and makes some very powerful arguments. No matter your politics, no matter your ideological compass, no...

As our reader, "lethal at debt prison" (love it!) notes below, folks are nervous about subprime. And with good reason -- this is a very serious situation.

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We welcome Kenny Moore to the roster of commentators regularly providing their views on Accountability Central. Kenny is a remarkable individual -- you have to read his book ("CEO and the Monk") to find out more...it's essential...