The Rock Star CEO is Back.
Good news, Billionaires, "Marketplace" on NPR has teamed up with The Economist and Harris Interactive to announce that it is okay to be a Billionaire again! [Click here to listen to the show in RealPlayer, skip to Time Marker 4:05 after download.]

In the first stage of a massive marketing campaign that we are all obliged to support, NY bureau chief from The Economist, Ben Edwards, states that the public may be "falling in love again" with the Rock Star CEO.

"The Hero Boss...is making a modest comeback," he states, thanking "the
man who may be responsible for the rekindling of our affections,"
Donald Trump, for bringing celebrity CEO's back to the hero worship
where they belong. Now, we all know Donald as the most beloved,
ingenious scoundrel of us all for his habit of not paying small
contractors for services rendered because it’s cheaper to fight them in
court, but that not as easy a sell in an age of unprecedented layoffs
and a struggling economy. Today the masses will forgive you as
long as you yell “You’re Fired” on national TV with a slick smirk and
even slicker suit. Really, it is an easier pill to swallow that
way.

More powerful than even the Donald is Edward’s assertion that "the
legislative cycle seems to have run its course." This year, "a
reinvigorated business lobby shot to pieces the SEC's initiative to
introduce a mildly less un-democratic system for electing board
directors." Please, schedule a lunch with your local congressman and
thank him or her for a job well done.

"Even those hand-cuffed celebrity ex-bosses seemed to be getting a
slightly less hostile reception." He went on to note that our comrade
in arms, Ken Lay, shortly after receiving an indictment for a myriad of
charges meant for lesser men, was "joshing with Larry King on prime
time TV. ‘Great meeting you, Ken.’ Larry wrapped up."


"Maybe even the cops," Edwards posits, will back off after catching on
"to the changing public mood - then [he] will really bask in the sun
again without fear that his next public appearance might be in orange
pajamas."


Yes, the “cops backing off” is good for business, and it is now our
responsibility to artificially inseminate the public mood by
repetition. For these are only a few highlights from his talking
points that, just like in the George W. Bush presidential campaign
strategy, should be repeated verbatim at every opportunity, because, as
we all know, Truth to the Public Ears is anything repeated over and
over again.


- posted by Monet Oliver d'Place