Business: The Teapot Dome Scandal

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Written by John Parsons

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Soon after two of his friends, Harry F. Sinclair (Mammoth Oil Corporation) and Edward L. Doheny (Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company), were allowed to lease part of these Naval Reserves, including Teapot Dome.

It soon became known that Albert fall was spending large sums of money. In fact fall had received "gifts" from , Harry F. Sinclair (Mammoth Oil Corporation) and Edward L. Doheny (Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company) totaling $400,000.

Hearings on repparttar Teapot Dome oil lease began on October, 1923.

Following were a number of civil and criminal suits related to repparttar 103000 Teapot Dome scandal.

In 1927 repparttar 103001 Supreme Court ruled that repparttar 103002 oil leases had been corruptly obtained and invalidated repparttar 103003 Elk Hills lease in February of that year and repparttar 103004 Teapot lease in October of repparttar 103005 same year.

Albert Fall was found guilty of bribery in 1929, fined $100,000 and sentenced to one year in prison.

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Managing Your Meetings

Written by Cynthia Kyriazis

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when comments are 'repetitive' instead of 'additive'. In fact, you might want to follow Roberts Rules of Order and ask attendees to speak no more than twice per topic, limiting their talk time to two minutes each time--assigning a timekeeper would also be a helpful step to take. Use a whiteboard for key points and be prepared to handle disruptive subgroup discussions—you want repparttar

meeting to remain focused and on time! At repparttar 102999

end of

meeting assign action items and deadlines—it helps staff remain attentive and reinforces accountability. "Do you know your next step?" is a great question to ask in order to give attendees repparttar 103001

opportunity to request and receive clarification on action items.

After repparttar 103002 meeting… Have repparttar 103003 "Action" follow-up sheet available by repparttar 103004 end of repparttar 103005 day. This can show repparttar 103006 date of repparttar 103007 meeting, tasks, responsible party, deadline date and a follow-up date. Assign a meeting coordinator to follow-through with repparttar 103008 commitments made and noted on this "Action" sheet.

The objective is to gain a reputation for having fewer, more effective and efficient meetings. Attendees will welcome repparttar 103009 opportunity to share information and participate when they feel they have been heard and they know their time hasn't been wasted.

Cynthia Kyriazis is a Professional Organizer, trainer, consultant, speaker, coach and author with over 20 years management experience in multi-unit corporations. She is President of Organize it, Inc., an organizational consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients since 1995. Cynthia has worked with over 150 companies and hundreds of professionals to help improve performance in the areas of time, information, space and electronic file management.

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