Comments on: A social entrepreneur you’ve never heard of … Raymond Ackerman

By: nadia shinay hendriks

nadia shinay hendriks — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:39:07 +0000

raymond ackerman you the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Satvika Harilal

Satvika Harilal — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:21:42 +0000

Very Helpful!!!
Thanks

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:35:15 +0000

Thank you for writing this. My father is a former corporate VP who believed that there was more to being a good manager than maximizing shareholder value. Companies had a responsibility to their employees just as they had a responsibility to their shareholders. He resigned jobs over issues like being asked to cook the books (he was an accountant before becomming an operations manager) and fought CEOs over their plans to lay off people just because they wanted an extra 0.05% increase in their multi-million dollar fortunes. My dad is retired now, but I learned more about the responsibilities of managers and corporations and how to manage people effectively listening to dinner conversation than most MBA graduates get with 4 years of graduate studies.

We need more managers and CEOs like Mr. Ackerman in the world, and we need more of the Nacchio’s locked up.

By: whythawk

whythawk — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:20:44 +0000

An example of that is the age of “great leading men” that Hollywood had in the 50s and 60s – most of the haggard appearances were the result of being real soldiers in a real war; they weren’t pretending.

Now I look at the Ben Affleck’s, Brad Pitt’s and sundry others with their soft-pretty-gym-bodies and put-upon expressions and think, yeah, Sheryl Crow and her demands for single-cell toilet-paper use … that’s about as much of an issue as they can come up with.

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:15:24 +0000

There are so many Joe Nacchios in the world, and with our recent spate of bad exec behavior (Rigas, Koslowski, Ebbers, Lay, Skilling, etc.) I get to the point where I forget that they’re not all like that and that it doesn’t HAVE to be that way. I don”t know anything about Ackerman, but I guess I want to now.

Your comment on how he broke down barriers puts him in some fine company. We were recently discussing Johnny Clegg, whose band Juluka was the first multi-racial band in SA back in the ’80s. And if I recall, that was illegal at the time.

I suppose great obstacles breed great leaders, and have wondered what percentage of America’s … malaise? … owes to the fact that since Vietnam it’s just been too easy on us. We’ve had nothing to worry about besides being good marketers and customers for consumer goods.