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Yahoo CEO Apparently Leaving
There are numerous press reports tonight that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson will resign his post on Monday in the wake of a scandal over the falsifying of information on his resume.
Though I believe he's doing the right thing and probably deserves it, it seems ironic that he is a victim of the technology he's been a key player in and in which his phony degree was not granted.
The guy heads up one of the biggest (however faded) Internet companies and he's done in by a shareholder who used the Internet to determine that his resume had a bogus entry on it, then brought the problem to public attention on the Internet. How ironic is that?
The Internet Machine will get you if you're not careful!
Yahoo CEO is Guilty of Something
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, in hot water over a fake degree claimed on his resume, used the famous SODDI defense (Some Other Dude Did It). He disclaims any knowledge of who would make such an amendment to his resume or how it would end up on the Yahoo site and in Federal financial filings.
But the same entry has appeared on previous versions of his resume; he just didn't get caught those times.
So either he is a liar or he trusts others with something as important as his public biography. In other words, he's either dishonest or incompetent. For either reason, he should leave his post. Yahoo doesn't need this at a time when its fortunes are in such decline.
Spirituality: Could it Be a Cure-All?
This wonderful piece in the India Times describes how spirituality -- which the author defines somewhat broadly as "Basically ... a non-materialistic approach to life's issues as opposed to the other approach that is based on materialistic interest." -- is the key to stopping the corruption that is so rampant in India and throughout most of the world. I concur with the writer and wish to broaden the discussion.
It seems to me that spiritually, properly understood as I think the above definition comes close to doing, is indeed the answer not only to corruption but to much of what is going haywire in the world around us these days.
Specifically, it seems to me that a spiritual approach to economics, banking and finance, would, once in place, all but eradicate much of the unfairness, bias, and economic violence which is now rampant. If even a substantial minority of those who call the shots in these arenas was focused more on the non-material issues of fairness, justice, opportunity and equality, we could cut through a lot of the garbage out there passing for serious economic policy but serves the materialistic selfishness of a minuscule minority of our citizenry.
If we looked at our unilaterally launched and all-but-morally-indefensible wars against terror, and in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya (and lots of other places nobody's talking about), with non-materialistic aims in mind. We'd shut them down in a nanosecond and divert those resources to activities that promote love and peace and harmony.
Maybe if, instead of calling it spirituality, we called it "non-materialism", we'd get more traction for these ideas in the public arena?
