Now we know why Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has starting updating his blog again after a long hiatus between posts:  he’s been gearing up to defend himself from the revelation that on several occasions he tried to drive down the stock price of his smaller rival Wild Oats by leaving unflattering pseudononymous comments on online investor forums.  Whole Foods has since acquired Wild Oats. 
Both […]

Back on July 30 I posted a piece called 5 Good Reasons Not All CEOs Should Blog.  Thanks to Jason Goldberg of Jobster, the online recruiting site, I now have a sixth good reason:  You might be exposed as the baldfaced liar that you really are.
When rumors started flying last month that Jobster was in trouble and layoffs were imminent, Goldberg […]

The Republican party and Edelman, the public relations firm, have something in common these days.  Both are suffering a crisis of confidence of their own making.  In the case of the GOP, the habit of claiming the moral high ground on ”values” has inevitably fallen victim to a series of scandals that has shaken the faith of […]

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems and the only real blogger among Fortune 500 chief executives (there are a few other blogs but they are either PR written or rarely updated) has just petitioned Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC, for modification of “Reg FD,” or Regulation Fair Disclosure, to allow Sun to announce financial performance or material […]

Show me a CEO who truly believes that mobs are smart and crowds are wise and I’ll show you a nine-toed wombat.  As the continuing sordid saga at HP demonstrates, few executives make it to the top without acquiring unhealthy doses of paranoia and hubris along the way.  All too often, this leads to a bunker […]

The internet is a giant global soap box that provides companies with a cheap and efficient way to reach thousands of constituents–customers, employees, suppliers, the business press, regulators and so on.  On the surface, blogging would seem to be an especially useful way for chief executives to cut through the clutter and take the company’s message directly to […]

In the brave new world of corporate blogging, many CEOs are called but few are chosen or, maybe, choose to take the plunge.  Here’s my review of some of the most prominent.
Mark Cuban, (Chairman, HDNet) 
Dallas Mavericks owner and Dan Rather fan, Cuban may not be voted most popular owner by the NBA referees, but he’s an excellent blogger with a […]