101 dumbest moments in business

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/mag/0,1640,38604,00.html


My favorite:

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! :cool:

(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!)

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.

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

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

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

sapienza

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

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! :eek:

*bump*

Putting Vista on the market too soon.

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