Today's DU lead article by Don Elkins....

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..."Behind Closed Doors at the Wal-Mart Media Conference"


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Scott took pains to explain that we live in a "New World" with a new paradigm where competition and efficiency rule. But, do those "values" as Scott described them exclude humane or even preferential treatment for American workers?

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Lee Scott gets an A+ as a straight-up executive. So far, he values a right-down-the-line approach to ethics on the board, he's managed to raise the price of the company's stock from the mid-90s doldrums near $10 a share to the company's usual mid-$50 a share range. He's expanded the company, and it sits on the top of the Fortune 500 list for another year -- he's a superb businessman. But, with a company the likes of which the world has never seen, an entire economic segment unto itself, perhaps some "outside the envelope" thinking needs to take place to make things right for the company, the shareholders and those who have big problems with Wal-Mart, and I don't mean just the UCFW.

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Well, why can't America have two Wal-Mart type organizations that are in competition with each other? Or for that matter three or four? What is pure profits for the goose must surely be generous pickings for the gander as well. Lee Scott is CEO, but there are at least a dozen VP underlings who could be enticed away by other retail organizations who might jump into the fray with the same "New World" formula and benefit the whole society with the Wal-Mart paradigm. The paradigm is master/slave labor!

Paradigm shift, where has that been discussed before? Werner Erhard of EST fame, former Scientologist, driving motivational force behind The Landmark Forum and numerous other group awareness training programs. Watch these people, they are very dangerous.

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<snip> http://skepdic.com/landmark.html