Comments on: Greenwashing Our Valley http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/10/09/greenwashing-our-valley/ Life, Literature, and the Subversive Power of Living Small Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:49:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/10/09/greenwashing-our-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-3881 Ted Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:29:30 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/10/09/greenwashing-our-valley/#comment-3881 Below are two comments on Wade Dokken by someone, or two individuals, who worked for Skandia. If the accounts are accurate, you've got a real weasel in your midst. From Amazon.com - review of Dokken's book: http://www.amazon.com/New-Century-Deal-Through-Security/dp/0895262401/ref=sr_1_1/002-9138859-5335265?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194272783&sr=1-1 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Another Greedy Executive, October 7, 2005 By Ex Employee that knows the truth "Ex empolyee... (USA) - See all my reviews "This book was horrible. Wade was promoted to CEO of American Skandia, in his role he made sure to oust the previous CEO from any say in what happens with the company. This Ex-CEO was responsible for brining American Skandia to the top. After Wade drove American Skandia to the ground he was quoted saying in a management meeting "When this company is sold I'm going to get rich". Is this someone that you have confidence in directing you where to put your money. Let's remember that he lost so much credibility with his clients that he almost ran the company completly to the ground. Now Prudential has saved American Skandia from complete destruction. " The other comment is on Phil Cubeta's gifthub.org: "Beware Montana, the "brains" behind Ameya Preserve is the former CEO of an Insurance Company, who sold the firm to Prudential in a move that bank rolled his personal fortune at the expense of nearly 1000 employees. It was a firm that grew significantly under previous leadership. In May of 2000, he took over management control and preceeded over the rapid demise of the firm. He then invoked radical cost cutting that resulted in the termination of over 500 jobs. In an internal memo in 2001, he stated how he would not take any "current income" until the financial condition of the firm improved. And while it is true that he suspended his "salary" his bonus/package that year amounted to over $3 million. After two years of searching for a buyer for the firm, he struck a deal to sell it at a despiration price nearly 8 times less than the valuation of the firm he took over just 2 years earlier. However, while employees lost their jobs, he and his management team, comprised of personal friends, personally cashed in to the tune of over $120 million. So ask yourself two questions: 1. Does this sound like the background of an environmentalist or a crooked two-bit Capitalist? and 2. Do you want to be bilked like the 500 empolyees who lost their jobs in his previous "get rich" sceme? I am not sure a development based on Morals can be conceived by a Morally Bankrupt man." Posted by: HS | September 23, 2007 at 08:14 AM Wade sounds like a real sweet guy, true to his words - NOT! Cheers Below are two comments on Wade Dokken by someone, or two individuals, who worked for Skandia. If the accounts are accurate, you’ve got a real weasel in your midst.

From Amazon.com – review of Dokken’s book:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Century-Deal-Through-Security/dp/0895262401/ref=sr_1_1/002-9138859-5335265?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194272783&sr=1-1

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Another Greedy Executive, October 7, 2005
By Ex Employee that knows the truth “Ex empolyee… (USA) – See all my reviews

“This book was horrible. Wade was promoted to CEO of American Skandia, in his role he made sure to oust the previous CEO from any say in what happens with the company. This Ex-CEO was responsible for brining American Skandia to the top. After Wade drove American Skandia to the ground he was quoted saying in a management meeting “When this company is sold I’m going to get rich”. Is this someone that you have confidence in directing you where to put your money. Let’s remember that he lost so much credibility with his clients that he almost ran the company completly to the ground. Now Prudential has saved American Skandia from complete destruction. ”

The other comment is on Phil Cubeta’s gifthub.org:

“Beware Montana, the “brains” behind Ameya Preserve is the former CEO of an Insurance Company, who sold the firm to Prudential in a move that bank rolled his personal fortune at the expense of nearly 1000 employees. It was a firm that grew significantly under previous leadership. In May of 2000, he took over management control and preceeded over the rapid demise of the firm. He then invoked radical cost cutting that resulted in the termination of over 500 jobs. In an internal memo in 2001, he stated how he would not take any “current income” until the financial condition of the firm improved. And while it is true that he suspended his “salary” his bonus/package that year amounted to over $3 million. After two years of searching for a buyer for the firm, he struck a deal to sell it at a despiration price nearly 8 times less than the valuation of the firm he took over just 2 years earlier. However, while employees lost their jobs, he and his management team, comprised of personal friends, personally cashed in to the tune of over $120 million. So ask yourself two questions: 1. Does this sound like the background of an environmentalist or a crooked two-bit Capitalist? and 2. Do you want to be bilked like the 500 empolyees who lost their jobs in his previous “get rich” sceme? I am not sure a development based on Morals can be conceived by a Morally Bankrupt man.”

Posted by: HS | September 23, 2007 at 08:14 AM

Wade sounds like a real sweet guy, true to his words – NOT!

Cheers

]]> By: Lynn http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/10/09/greenwashing-our-valley/comment-page-1/#comment-3740 Lynn Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:13:47 +0000 http://livingsmallblog.com/2007/10/09/greenwashing-our-valley/#comment-3740 Testify! Have you ever got it right. And congratulations! Even though the Ameya Preserve people have clearly paid for favorable Google Search and Google Blog Search results placement, your estimable blog and excellent post come up at the top of page two! The next thing you know, Alice Waters will want to post an article about high desert local produce on your blog. Testify!
Have you ever got it right. And congratulations! Even though the Ameya Preserve people have clearly paid for favorable Google Search and Google Blog Search results placement, your estimable blog and excellent post come up at the top of page two! The next thing you know, Alice Waters will want to post an article about high desert local produce on your blog.

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