101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Business 2.0 has just published it's annual list of bizarre or just plain silly business decisions from last year. It's always good to see why CEOs pay themsleves the big wages. You'll all have your own favourites. I liked these two:

23. New for 2006: gaunt, hollow-eyed Stalking You Bear.
In January the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. receives protests from the mental-health community over its Crazy for You Bear, a plush toy in a straitjacket that comes with commitment papers.

The company agrees to discontinue the bear.

29. Men, on the other hand, have a charming self-destructive quality.
Speaking at an ad industry event in Toronto, WPP Group's worldwide creative director, Neil French, says there aren't more female creative directors "because they're crap" and they eventually "wimp out" and "go off and suckle something." French speaks from a stage decorated as a hunting lodge while being served drinks by a woman in a skimpy maid's outfit, of whom he asks, "Could you lean over a bit more?" Two weeks later WPP accepts French's resignation.

I don't know, though, I'd quite like to buy that bear...