When You Hear About the Boneheaded Choices of These Business Leaders, Your Mistakes Won’t Look So Cringeworthy

Business owners and entrepreneurs who mess up royally might take cold comfort in Al Lewis’s Substack, BusinessBlunders.com, which regularly details the boneheaded choices and outright illegal antics of a rogues gallery of today’s and yesteryear’s CEOs and senior executives.

For most readers, Al’s independent newsletter is an opportunity to learn from other people’s mistakes, which is, as he puts it, “is a lot less costly than learning from your own.”

Among his recent posts is an article titled Lost In Love: Top CEOs who kissed away their jobs, featuring, among others, Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan, BP CEO Bernard Looney, and McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook.

Al is a veteran journalist and editor, having served as business editor of the Houston Chronicle and The Denver Post, and Markets Editor at CNBC.

You won’t want to miss this episode. Doing so would be a business blunder of the first order.

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo: Al Lewis, BusinessBlunders.com
Posted: May 12, 2025
Monday Morning Run Time: 50:25
Episode: 13.45

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