As a rebellious teenager, I lived a double life. My family required that I attend church every Sunday, even though I despised going. At church, I became masterful at saying and doing the right things. Whenever I was outside the church, however, the real Rick Boxx surfaced. My drinking and carousing would have appalled our church leaders. Many people ...
A friend of mine is a Dean of a business school. Recently, he shared with me that one of his more common problems with freshmen students is plagiarism. When he asks his students to write an essay, it’s become common for some of them to turn in a paper that was produced for them online. What troubles my friend the ...
George Santos was recently elected as a Congressman. Unfortunately, his resume was not vetted, allowing Mr. Santos the opportunity to easily deceive the voters of New York. According to The New York Times, Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College and New York University and, that he more than doubled revenue as a project manager at Goldman Sachs. But ...
Many salespeople have told me a similar story. When the pressure rises, they begin hearing their bosses say, “If you get someone on the phone, tell them whatever you have to in order to close the sale.” Many salespeople are commanded to lie to gain customers. This creates a dilemma for those who desire to live out their faith ...
Senator Rand Paul has been trying to uncover whether employees at the National Institute of Health are receiving royalties from companies that receive NIH drug contracts. Senator Paul feels stonewalled by the NIH. Senator Paul discovered that $193 million in royalty payments have been made to approximately 1800 employees of the NIH. He was unable to find out, however, ...
One of the challenges facing many business leaders who have a large staff is actually hearing the truth. So many people believe that they need to share only what their boss wants to hear that they rarely share what their boss needs to hear. For several years I worked for a boss who punished people who delivered hard truth. His ...
Our next speaker in Kansas City, Dr. Caroline Leaf, is a neuroscientist who often talks about brain plasticity. That may not sound very appealing to most business leaders. But when a good copywriter shares about Dr. Leaf, it sounds more like, “Backed by up-to-date scientific research and biblical insight, Dr. Caroline Leaf empowers business leaders to take control of their ...
Scott Tucker was a race car driver who amassed tremendous wealth by charging borrowers incredibly high interest rates through his payday lending operation. Tucker is currently spending 16 years in prison for criminal racketeering. There are many victims of Tucker’s operation who would like to see restitution. The Federal Trade Commission levied $1.27 billion against Tucker to repay victims. But ...
Zachary Horwitz, a virtually unknown actor in Hollywood, allegedly paid for his lavish lifestyle through a Ponzi scheme. According to the Wall Street Journal, Horwitz bilked investors out of $690 million by claiming he had licensing rights to movies that he was selling to Netflix and HBO! Since Ponzi schemes are sustained by obtaining money from new investors, Horwitz’s plot ...
William Rick Singer identified a college admissions niche when he discovered that wealthy people would pay incredible sums of money to assure their children get into the right schools. Singer found, through bribery and deception, a way to make millions by convincing key people within universities to accept his clients’ kids into their schools. Singer used fees he collected to ...
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