101 dumbest moments in business

SteveDallas · 03-14-2002, 11:53 PM

This list from Business 2.0 of the "101 dumbest moments in business" is pretty good. To their credit, they list themselves running one of the Enron execs on their cover as an item on the list.

http://www.business2.com/articles/ma...,38604,00.html

My favorite:

Quote:

75. Unilever subsidiary Lipton approves an ad in which a man standing in line for communion holds a bowl of onion dip, presumably to improve the taste of the body of Christ. Under protest, Lipton withdraws the ad.

I want a copy!

(note.. when I clicked the link to double-check that I posted it correctly, I noticed the list is labelled as "humor." I suppose it is funny, or I wouldn't have posted it, but AFAIK everything on the list really happened!)

MaggieL · 03-15-2002, 12:15 PM

Need to be careful, here....that' s content for the April issue. Caveat lector.
Although *many* of the things on that list definately did happen.

03-15-2002, 01:51 PM

It was on the front page of Slashdot yesterday. Everyone and their brother knows about it. No reason to be careful

sapienza · 03-15-2002, 03:41 PM

Hay, kbarger, The Smoking Gun <i>always</i> comes through!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/liptonad1.shtml

sapienza

russotto · 03-18-2002, 11:07 AM

1. Arthur Andersen Consulting breaks ties with its parent, changes name to "Accenture".

SteveDallas · 03-18-2002, 12:08 PM

Thanks sapienza!

(Oh, and MaggieL, I did know the Lipton ad was real if nothing else was cause I found other reaction to it when I was trying to find a copy of the ad.)

I'm still trying to decide whether this is offensive or not, but while I'm thinking about it I know several people that will benefit from seeing it!

classicman · 12-21-2007, 05:02 PM

*bump*

Putting Vista on the market too soon.

HumanBeast · 12-29-2007, 02:11 PM

People who jumped off the New York buildings when the stock market crashed in 1929.

03-15-2002, 12:15 PM	#2
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Need to be careful, here....that' s content for the April issue. Caveat lector. Although many of the things on that list definately did happen. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

03-18-2002, 11:07 AM	#5
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	SMARTEST moves in business, in retrospect 1. Arthur Andersen Consulting breaks ties with its parent, changes name to "Accenture".

12-21-2007, 05:02 PM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	bump Putting Vista on the market too soon. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-15-2002, 01:51 PM	#3
dave Guest Posts: n/a	It was on the front page of Slashdot yesterday. Everyone and their brother knows about it. No reason to be careful

03-15-2002, 03:41 PM	#4
sapienza Resident Denizen Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 61	Hay, kbarger, The Smoking Gun <i>always</i> comes through! http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/liptonad1.shtml sapienza

03-18-2002, 12:08 PM	#6
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Thanks sapienza! (Oh, and MaggieL, I did know the Lipton ad was real if nothing else was cause I found other reaction to it when I was trying to find a copy of the ad.) I'm still trying to decide whether this is offensive or not, but while I'm thinking about it I know several people that will benefit from seeing it!

12-29-2007, 02:11 PM	#8
HumanBeast Resident-in-Training Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7	People who jumped off the New York buildings when the stock market crashed in 1929.

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