CEO answer: Yes, of course.
So does it matter how many followers you have on social media?
Next question: Did Hitler have followers?
Host: Of course. Was he a leader?
Me: Yes, with the exception of one essential, missing trait: Character.
CEO then began to golf clap, metaphorically speaking, branding me, The Analyst. But that's not the point.
Character is what it always comes down to, sooner or later. For anyone still jumping on political band wagons, know that in the end, character still matters. And it always will.
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'He who fires first generally wins.' Recent legal maneuvering at MGM, which clearly was negligent during last Oct.'s worst ever shooting massacre at Mandalay Bay, raised my ire more than any story this year. The idea that CEOs and boards can sit in a room and weigh the legal costs at the costs of everything else on Earth, including the loss of life, and then let only liability costs and crafty self perceived loopholes determine their actions leaves a ton to be desired. It's not leadership, period.
Here's hoping more change agents, more diversity and more principle-based people can move the status quo forward. Because what exists now inside MGM is unacceptable. What may be even more frustrating is how two versions of the story appeared in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times during the same cycle, and one was clearly more informative, fuller than the other. Fake news or no fake news, it's getting harder by the day to discern facts, much less reality, assuming a shared one still exists.
Jeremy C. Garlington
Point of View LLC
Phone: 404-606-0637
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| Lake Garda, Italy (foreground, across from reflecting pool) |
Dinner with a view -- and great conversation. In a beautiful far away land, I recently found myself playing second chair at a business dinner where the host was the CEO of a major European company and the primary guest was a POV client. Our gracious host wanted to know what I did, which is always an interesting exchange when there's no prompter. He had complained earlier in the evening about social media and how it seemed misused to the point of distortion.
Over some great wine, I asked him point blank: Do you have to have followers to qualify as a leader?
CEO answer: Yes, of course.
So does it matter how many followers you have on social media?
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| CEO setting his indoor pool color. |
Host: No, not exactly (while starting to laugh.)
Next question: Did Hitler have followers?
Host: Of course. Was he a leader?
Me: Yes, with the exception of one essential, missing trait: Character.
CEO then began to golf clap, metaphorically speaking, branding me, The Analyst. But that's not the point.
Character is what it always comes down to, sooner or later. For anyone still jumping on political band wagons, know that in the end, character still matters. And it always will.
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'He who fires first generally wins.' Recent legal maneuvering at MGM, which clearly was negligent during last Oct.'s worst ever shooting massacre at Mandalay Bay, raised my ire more than any story this year. The idea that CEOs and boards can sit in a room and weigh the legal costs at the costs of everything else on Earth, including the loss of life, and then let only liability costs and crafty self perceived loopholes determine their actions leaves a ton to be desired. It's not leadership, period.
Here's hoping more change agents, more diversity and more principle-based people can move the status quo forward. Because what exists now inside MGM is unacceptable. What may be even more frustrating is how two versions of the story appeared in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times during the same cycle, and one was clearly more informative, fuller than the other. Fake news or no fake news, it's getting harder by the day to discern facts, much less reality, assuming a shared one still exists.
Hizzoner has some explainin' to do. Or not. Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has been implicated in a secret payment to an employee that he fired: Miguel Southwell, the former GM of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
According to the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, the payment was arranged through the CEO of local real estate firm, Carter, who then proceeded to deny any knowledge of the payment through a company spokesperson -- who used to work for the AJC. For their sake, I hope they're right. To issue sweeping denials without all the facts present, such as proof of the payment itself, makes little sense, assuming evidence is eventually uncovered, which it nearly always is when it comes to financial transactions.
Reed has been a somewhat closely followed subject at times by yours truly. See a previously published piece here that appeared immediately following the former GM's firing in 2016: https://saportareport.com/mayor-reed-unfinished-legacy-bomb-clock-always-ticking/. Off the book payments that emerge after the fact are never a good thing, publicly speaking.
Whoever emerges to represent Reed legally will have their work cut out. Oh, one more thing: The position of Airport GM remains open if anyone would like to step up and apply. Someone always will. # Character matters.
Good day,
According to the Atlanta Journal & Constitution, the payment was arranged through the CEO of local real estate firm, Carter, who then proceeded to deny any knowledge of the payment through a company spokesperson -- who used to work for the AJC. For their sake, I hope they're right. To issue sweeping denials without all the facts present, such as proof of the payment itself, makes little sense, assuming evidence is eventually uncovered, which it nearly always is when it comes to financial transactions.
Reed has been a somewhat closely followed subject at times by yours truly. See a previously published piece here that appeared immediately following the former GM's firing in 2016: https://saportareport.com/mayor-reed-unfinished-legacy-bomb-clock-always-ticking/. Off the book payments that emerge after the fact are never a good thing, publicly speaking.
Whoever emerges to represent Reed legally will have their work cut out. Oh, one more thing: The position of Airport GM remains open if anyone would like to step up and apply. Someone always will. # Character matters.
Good day,
JG
Jeremy C. Garlington
Point of View LLC
Phone: 404-606-0637
