Richard Telofski

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Telofski is a competitive strategy analyst. Specializing in anti-corporate activism, he examines the actions of "irregular competitors" (i.e., activists and NGOs) and how those organizations impact business from within online and offline media.

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“Liberal” Access to the Proxy

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, authors Clark Judge and Richard Torrenzano discuss anticipated changes to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules which will allow more stockholder freedom of access to the process of corporate resolutions via the annual proxy.

Is this a new threat to corporate strategy?

Briefly for those of you unfamiliar [...]

Personal Charity vs. Charity-By-Law

There are three primary concepts on which society functions: faith, rule of law, and commerce. When these three key functions are allowed to find their optimum, society can really hum along. They act independently, but yet together. There are some overlaps among their functions, naturally. Such as when the ideas of

Each key has a [...]

Wrap Your Argument in a Principle

Chevron has been embroiled in an environmental case concerning their operations in the Amazon rainforest. The controversy and legal wrangling has been going on for quite a while. Just Google “chevron amazon lawsuit” and you’ll see what I mean. Today I’m not commenting on that case per se, but what I am commenting upon is a [...]

Will Too Much Transparency Be Bad for All of Us?

Activist and NGO calls upon companies to act in a more transparent fashion are fine, but only up to a point.

Although I am a business advocate, I’m absolutely not in favor of companies adopting questionable processes, cheating consumers, or raping the land. I am a business advocate to the point of business being necessary and [...]

Activism: Harm to the Body Politic?

In their battle against business, one tactic of activists is to challenge the legal parameters within which corporations operate.

In reading about this tactical approach, I came across an article entitled “Paradigm Shift: Challenging Corporate Authority” and written by Paul Cienfuegos. This article appears in a book entitled The Global Activist’s Manual, edited by Mike Prokosch [...]

Free Food is Next on the NGO Agenda

Remember back in the 1990s, when Hillary-Care was being bandied about as a program to provide free medical care for all Americans. During that debate I thought it was only a matter of time until someone went further and started pushing, seriously, for a program advocating free food for all. Perhaps we’ve reached that point.

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