Mac's Blogs

Mac has written about most every conceivable business topic but especially ethical leadership, bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, and of course, insurance. Finding a blog subject is easy. You can use the search function on the home page, and click-through any of the hot topics listed below.

Hartford Financial is Slip Sliding Away

Hartford Life May Have Learned its Lesson; Now if Only the Others Would

Hartford Forced to Outsource Leadership

Wanted: Top-Notch CEO: Finding a Hartford CEOHartford's Outsourced CEO: Part II

 

Building Better Business Management

Regulation and Regulators Need Regulation

In Good Business Management. It's Easy to Understand Hard

Fixing a Bad Corporate Culture Don't Let Peer Pressure Haunt Your Business
Be Blind in the Eye of Peer Pressure
Executive Pay Caps and Bonus Hocus

Lessons on Business Management and Ethics from Pettersgate
Another Example of Great Leadership: Bush

Yahoo and the Art of Successful Negotiation

Management Lessons to be Learned from the Failure of General Motors
The Six Attributes of Successful Business Mavericks

Simple Is As Simple Does

Simple is Sexy Again

Success Attained is Easier than Success Retained
Success: What is it and Who Owns it, Anyway?

The Merry Go Round Antics of Management Consultants We Exterminate Rats and Cockroaches -- Why Not Management Consultants
Panic as a Management Folly in a Recession

Treating Employees Respectfully Pays Off
What a Riot Working at Hyatt

The Lessons of 2008 That if Learned Well Can Make 2009 Better for All of Us
Management Lessons in the Tiger Tragedy

Loyalty Gained is Loyalty Earned
Loyalty: A Lost Concept in Business

Is Corporate Culture Putting Your Job at Risk
Is There a PR Person in the House? Most CEOs Have Employee TLC Bass Ackward
Slippery Slopes are Paved with Entitlement

Telltale Sign of a Company in Decline

The Greatest Threat to Personal and Business Success Is Success
The Siren Song of Synergy

Will Grovel for Food To Win the Corporate Game, First Know it is a Game

 

Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurism

Bankers and Bureaucrats: Numskulls and Nitwits
Financial Crisis: How the Entrepreneur Deal with it In Business, Greed is Everybody's Problem and Entrepreneurism is the Antidote
How Bureaucracy Sabotages Corporate Success and What You Can Do to Avoid It
In Business, Greed is Everybody's Problem and Entrepreneurism is the Antidote
Take this Job and Shove it : Bureaucratic Cultures

Recovering Entrepreneurs Often Make the Past the Future

Live in the Past and be Lost in the Future

 

Health Care and the Insurance Industry

Health Care Legislation: Sign of Failed Leadership
Health Care: One More Time

Health Companies Infected with Pre-Existing Case of Unbridled Greed

Obama's Failed Leadership in Health Care Reform
This Health Care Debate is Making Me Sick

Opportunity Squandered by Insurance Industry in Health Care Debate
Save The Independent Insurance Agent A Plague on the House of the Health Insurance Industry
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Health Care Debate: A Classic Case of Taking Something Simple and Making it
Complicated

Panic Blinds Reason

 

Life Insurance Industry

Insurance Executives Prove Stupid is as Stupid Does
Who Wants the Same Old, Same Old? Pray for Change!

Neither Baby Boomers Nor Their Financial Advisors Should Forget about the Future

Insurance Industry: a Guarantee for Trouble

Insurance Industry Crisis Creates New Opportunities

The Insurance Industry in the Obama Era

The Death of Life (Insurance)

The Black Hole of the Life Insurance Industry
The State of the Life Insurance Industry: Today and Tomorrow

Is There Much Life Left in Life?

Needed: New Blood in the Insurance Industry

Ernst &Young ---Dumbs Down to Life Insurance Industry
How Smart Insurance Agents Face Down a Recession
Networking among Insurance Pros is More Important Than Ever

What's Wrong with the Insurance Industry?

Gander Institute to Release Findings on Future of Life Insurance Industry
Needed: Insurance Regulations to Protect Insurance Companies from Themselves

When Marketing Insurance Products, Being Better Beats Being BiggerInsurance Executives Prove Stupid is as Stupid Does
Who Wants the Same Old, Same Old? Pray for Change!

Neither Baby Boomers Nor Their Financial Advisors Should Forget about the Future

Insurance Industry: a Guarantee for Trouble

Insurance Industry Crisis Creates New Opportunities

The Insurance Industry in the Obama Era

The Death of Life (Insurance)

The Black Hole of the Life Insurance Industry
The State of the Life Insurance Industry: Today and Tomorrow

Why is it so Difficult to ask Why?

 

Improving Your Business Leadership

Leadership Does Matter

Leadership Lessons Learned from the Health Care Debate
Leadership: How Much Difference Does a Small Difference Make?
Are you Married to a Lower Form of Life?

On Being McCrystalized: Living Lessons in Leadership
Bankers and Goldfish Run in Schools and get Tanked
Barack Obama Beat The System

Blowing Away the Smoke from the Financial Crisis
BP: Cheap Shots and Lessons in Leadership

Old MacDonald's Farm — Growing a New Crop of Leaders
Where Have All the Ethical Leaders Gone

Why Businesses Need Strong Ethical Leadership

Buying Business Buys Trouble

Global Warming Effort Filled With Numskulls and Nitwits
Gulf Oil Spill Could be Good Thing

The Power of a Positive Business Culture The Secret to Business Success Become a Trust Builder
The Secrets of Business Success

How Business Managers Become Business Leaders
Ethical Leadership Feeding Good Business

Real Leadership Depends on Understanding the Difference Between Ethics and Ethical

Needed: New and Improved Leadership
Leadership and Management Lessons in Life

Mystery Solved: Economic Crisis Caused by Failure of Leaders to Cheat Enough!

Mystery Solved: The Economic Crisis Caused by Weakness and Stupidity

Phil Mickelson and Ethical Leadership

 

Personalities

Daniel J. Rourke: Happiness in the Sadness of Losing a Special Friend

Hypocrisy Thy Name is Billy Payne

The Hypocrisy Exhibited in the LeBron James Circus
The Dark Side of the George Steinbrenner Legacy

 

Politics

The Differing Perspectives of Rangel and Schorr
What is Really Wrong with the Economy?

Mac’s Marvelous Meanderings

One Decade Down and Done -- Good Riddance

McCain Exposes Obama by using the Dreaded "S" Word
If Obama is a Socialist, What are We?

Morons and the Mosque Settle the Illegal Immigration Debate