Bernard Ebbers

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On an April day in 2000, throughout the ‘booming’ times of a market optimistic community when the culture was boiling over with money and the corporations had seemed more vital as an asset and more influential than the governments. Eric Michael Packer, a billionaire manager at the age of 28, had emerged from his luxurious penthouse an settled into his personally advanced customized white stretch limousine. That day, he was a man with two distinctively different missions: to pursue a bet against…

what made him seem like an effective leader. His social relationships with his people ensured that his employees retained loyalty. His quick success in the business despite having a different background made him seem like a dream to his employs. Bernard hired engineers and experts in areas which he lacked in to help guide the company. This showed that he was not afraid to learn and take help from employees. However, Bernard’s preference to only some of the Executives in his company as he gave…

Discussion Questions 1. To what extent were the actions of Bernard Ebbers indicative of leadership, and to what extent did Ebbers display destructive deviant behavior? Provide examples of leadership and deviant behavior from the case. Bernie “Ebbers lead WorldCom through over 60 acquisitions over a period of 15 years.”, which averages one new acquisition per quarter. (http://open.lib.umn.edu) In our reference text, Bernie was described by one WorldCom employee as being “...like a rock star.”…

According to the Case 3 analysis, Bernard Ebbers was viewed as a charismatic and responsible business leader and most people revere him. His influential figure and role in amalgamating and merging prominent telecommunications company including MCI was instrumental in maintaining a credible trust and accountability amongst key stakeholders. On the outskirts of WorldCom, his leadership style was visionary and was always leaning towards a positive course for the company and the community at large.…

1. Bernard Ebbers showed a lot of leadership because he had a lot of followers. His reputation and charisma created trust and loyalty. Bernard’s deviant behaviors came from him being obsessed with maintaining an unsustainable growth (The Role of Leaders in Influencing Unethical Behavior in the Workplace 2005). This lead to him and his subordinates doing unethical business practices. He showed leadership by cutting operating costs and investing most of his money back into the company stock. His…

In so many ways technology and Google has simplified people’s lives. Technology has become a necessity for just about everyone. All the information people need is at the tip of their fingers, directly on their phones. So, because of the easy access to Google and technology, individuals should be smarter, right? The fact is technology and Google makes people stupid, and this can be seen in a series of ways. First of all, Google alters the way people’s brains operate, and as a result they become…

Mark Madoff was put in a very difficult position on whether to turn his father, Bernie Madoff, in for his Ponzi scheme immediately or give his father a week delay as he requested. If Mark would have not immediately gone to authorities, he risked looking guilty for involvement and risked the charges associated with involvement, in addition to possibly facing charges for withholding information on his father’s illegal activity. If Mark chose to wait it out, he would be giving Bernie not only a…

We all want certain things, and sometimes greedy people want more than others. Like just about everyone, I have been a greedy person, and have had greed. My greed is ordinary though it is my motivator to go to college, get a better job, and truly succeed in life. I believe greed is good and bad because it can bring out the worst in people, but others it truly drives them to just be successful, happy people. I hope to describe how greed is something that just about everyone has and what…

awful situation they are put in they come out of it a better person. So what better way to portray the perfect character than by making them great with kids? That was, after all, the main concern of the movie; to make Roy Hobbs the perfect character. Bernard Malamud, on the other hand, was not so concerned with portraying Roy Hobbs as a wholesome guy; he was more concerned with the rise and fall of a hero. The difference in the presence of kids in the book and movie make or break Roy Hobbs as…