Friday, March 09, 2007

Corporate Funnies

Considering this hoot of a story from Fortune. Turns out there are Speakers Bureaus, agents who book speakers for events, which have raise chutzpah to a whole new level. Two firms publicize that they have big-name corporate CEOs in their steady of speakers. Only problem is that the agencies have no relationship with the CEOs, and never have.

OK, that's not so humorous. But, when Fortune asked Angela Schelp, the president of Nashville-based Executive Speakers, about all this, Schelp reply to that: "A lot of speakers are not necessarily exclusively with a bureau, but we'll list them because we can contact them," she says. Hmm, lemme get this straight: You can make contact with them.