John Mackey is blogging again. After the Whole Foods CEO was outed as "rahodeb" – the anonymous poster on Yahoo Finance's stock message boards who invariably defended the company and argued with detractors – he stopped blogging on the Whole Foods Web site. Company lawyers advised...
John Mackey had a bad 2007, but he's bouncing back in 2008 and the Whole Foods chief is finally talking about "rahodeb," the Internet alter-ego he used to leave scathing chatroom remarks about competitor Wild Oats just as he was angling to buy them. I imagine Mackey has been itching...
Whole Foods CEO Develops Worst-Practice in CommunicationsWhole FoodsFrom my blog @ wwww.persuasion-communication.com--Wizard of Oz: Number One no-no in crisis managementIn my list of issues I address in vulnerability audits I’ll have to add “officer stupidity.”Hometown hero I live in Austin John Mackey, chairman and CEO of Whole Foods, was outed...
From the headlines: Whole Foods chief accused of anonymously bashing a rival company on Internet chat board.John Mackey, who co-founded natural foods giant Whole Foods in 1980 and has served as its CEO ever since, is under the gun for posting some pretty slanderous stuff about his chief rival on...
LOS ANGELES -- On a day dedicated to edgy cable channel FX, the network talked to TV writers about saying goodbye to the series that started it all. The Shield, which airs its seventh, final season starting in September, was FX's first original series, sparked rival cable networks...
"Who will create the conscious businesses of the 21st century? Why not Bentley graduates? Why don't some of you go out and create conscious businesses that transform the world? Maybe that's what your heart is calling out to you to do." -- John Mackey WALTHAM, Mass., May 17...
The unexpected disbandment of Philadelphia Safe and Sound raised a host of concerns yesterday as the city's long-time overseer of after-school and summer services for 16,000 children will disappear just as summer nears. Some of the 200 social-service providers under contract with Safe and Sound - a city-funded nonprofit tied...
The year 2005 was a sad one for the Dark Star Orchestra. Original keyboardist and former band manager Scott Larned succumbed to a heart attack while on tour. The group -- rhythm guitarist/vocalist Rob Eaton, lead guitarist/ vocalist John Kadlecik, vocalist Lisa Mackey, drummer Dino English, drummer...
Staff Sales/Marketing Leather Italia USA Leland, N.C. - Manufacturer Leather Italia USA has added sales representation to fuel the growth of its domestic quick ship express programs. Greg Jarvis is representing the...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Dallas Clark does not pretend to be an expert in genealogy, but he knows a little bit about his lineage. Clark's six receptions and two touchdowns in Sunday's 38-15 victory by the Indianapolis Colts against the Houston Texans exemplified the evolution at his position that began...
WHAT DO UNIONS DO?--A TWENTY-YEAR PERSPECTIVE Edited by James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman 653 pages; Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction, 2007 John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods, a company widely touted as among the best to work for in America, was...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- He remembers watching Shannon Sharpe and Ben Coates play, studying tape of Kellen Winslow, once meeting and pumping John Mackey -- the tight end's tight end -- for tips "There's been so many great guys at that position," Tony Gonzalez said, "and I'm just...
The Alzheimer's Association, Greater Maryland Chapter, has elected three new members to the board of directors: Samuel Ross, M.D., CEO of Bon Secours Health System; John F. Schulze Jr, Associate, Colliers Pinkard; and Sylvia Mackey, wife of former Baltimore Colt and NFL Hall-of-Famer John Mackey. The Maryland...
"Given the choice between Whole Foods and the regular supermarket, I would walk the extra two blocks to the regular supermarket," says Zachary Violette, a 24-year-old gay man in Boston. Violette's distaste for Whole Foods may have something to do with the oodles of bad press the chain...
* Who is your business role model? I admire entrepreneurs who work with their heart as well as their head--Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, John Mackey of Whole Foods spring to mind. They all work with a heartfelt passion and drive that inspires me....
Medical tests confirm Colorado State star Kory Sperry has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, ending the senior's season. Surgery has not been scheduled. A timeline for recovery would put him back on the field by next summer should he decide to return next...
New Alternative to Plywood First of Its Kind in the Caribbean ORLANDO, Fla. -- Storm Stoppers[R] The Plywood Alternative[R], an Orlando-based hurricane shutter company, recently donated and installed over $5,000 worth of their Storm Stoppers product on the Salvation Army Headquarters building on Mackey Street in Downtown Nassau....
The songs became the stories; the music in African American fiction, 1970-2005. Cataliotti, Robert H. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2007 257 pages $32.95 Paperback African-American literature and culture; v.14 PS374 Cataliotti (American...
After nearly six years, Osama & Co. are still holed up on the Pakistan-Afghan border--and as strong as ever. Isn't it time we got this guy? Bush down Finally admits Al Qaeda's actually stronger now. Says this is a reason we should keep troops in Iraq. Pathetic. ...
Whole Foods Market has launched its own internal investigation into whether its founder and chief executive, John Mackey, broke any rules by posting anonymous comments on internet bulletin boards, talking up shares in the organic retail chain and talking down those of a rival he has since bid to acquire....
