The Ethics of Obesity Part III: Please, Something Good to Eat
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The Ethics of Obesity Part III: Please, Something Good to Eat
Since 1980 U.S. obesity rates have doubled for adults and tripled for children; this epidemic cannot be dismissed as a failure of willpower or exercise. Obesity can be linked to many factors including feeding practices in infancy, imprinted genes, metabolic issues, fructose, anxiety disorders, depression, “behavioral sympathy,” race, trauma, eating certain restaurant and other food […]
read more »The Ethics of Obesity Part II: Dying for Fast Food?
Obesity has a deeply emotional aspect that defies easy solutions. It remains to be seen what ethical leadership will emerge from the food, beverage, restaurant, and fast food industries in really addressing their part in the obesity crisis. The industries are being politically correct donating money and having promotions to advertise healthy life choices. They […]
read more »Tiger Woods: The Ethics of Golf vs. the Golfer
Update December 4, 2011: Tiger Woods has won his first golf tournament since the scandal this column addressed two years ago. Golfers adhere to a code of conduct unique in sports. From tee to green, they referee themselves. Expected to follow the rules, if they break any, they call penalties on themselves. It is the […]
read more »The Ethics of Obesity Part One: CPK’s Gotcha Menu
Restaurant CEOs have to determine what leadership, if any, their companies will take in America’s obesity crisis. More than two-thirds of Americans adults are categorized as obese or overweight; mounting medical research links eating habits to several preventable diseases. Estimates are that most Americans eat out at least 50% each week. Restaurants’ leaders have a […]
read more »The Congressional Record: Genentech’s House Organ?
Genentech, the biotechnology behemoth, has been caught ghostwriting and mass marketing its ideas on health care reform and putting them into the mouths of a few dozen congressmen, many of whom entered the statements into the Congressional Record as their own. The repetitiveness of the statements triggered a New York Times reporter’s investigation which found […]
read more »World Series Meltdown: McCourts Strike Out
Frank and Jamie McCourt are a classic case study in how to abdicate leadership and undermine the reputation of a franchise by trashing their own. They presented themselves to Los Angeles five years ago as a duo committed to building the Dodgers franchise into the greatest ballclub. Their timing stripping away their marriage’s veneer in […]
read more »Broadcom’s Backdaters: The Trials of Many Tears
Options backdating is about failure of ethical leadership. And, according to a study released in August 2009, the act of uncovering and disclosing stock option backdating can lead to improvements in management and financial performance. Aren’t leaders who lie about options backdating more likely to cut other corners? Even if their goals undermine their organizations’ […]
read more »Executive Compensation: Avoiding the Land of the Lost
Wall Street, like the Will Ferrell bomb Land of the Lost, has too many dinosaurs; business as usual isn’t moving fast enough to extinction. In the wake of the financial meltdown, this has been a busy week for trying to reign in executive pay packages that encouraged bankers to take excessive risks and also setting […]
read more »Private Lives, Public Impact: The End of the Race for Max Mosley
This month Max Mosley, the controversial, all-powerful, president of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) which oversees Formula One and Grand Prix racing, finds himself at the end of a 16-year reign, felled by fallout from leadership some call dictatorial and a sex scandal 19 months ago that smeared the organization he helped build. Mosley […]
read more »Why U. of Illinois Scandal Muddied UC Davis Chancellor
Update: August 9, 2016, Chancellor Katehi resigned today after the investigation report was released. Its findings cited issues with her judgment, lack of candor with university leaders and violations of university policies. Update: April 28, 2016, Chancellor Katehi suspended for 90 days pending an investigation into whether she used public money to fund a social […]
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