Learn how you, as a titan in the world of industry or finance, can earn your company its due as well as the respect and admiration of people you don't even know. How? By sending Chuck Goldstone an expensive gift. This may not sound like a good idea to you now, but Chuck assures us that in time it may make more sense. He claims not to have worked out all the details, but says to send the considerations anyway, and just trust him on this.

Here are some examples. Incidentally, if you are a powerful CEO and do not see you company name listed here, do not worry, Chuck would be more than happy to accommodate your generosity.

• Apple Computer might consider sending off one of those sleek and powerful notebook computers with the big screen, actually the metal one and not the one made out of that white plastic.. And maybe an iPOD if there is room in the same shipping box.
  

• Lexus might want to equip him with a car, and knowing his pathologically inept sense of direction, it would definitely need be one with some kind of a GPS navigational system too.

• An airline he likes, for instance JetBlue or Southwest or maybe even Delta, could consider giving him tickets anytime he wants to go somewhere (by the way, he will need a second ticket for the woman he might be dating at the time or we are sure that he will never hear the end of it. Oh, and, if you are either British Airways or Cathay Pacific and considering sending off some vouchers, don't even think about it because no matter what you do, you will never make up for the two most miserable customer service experiences he has ever had. He delights in recounting the stories. We often wonder what on earth did you do to him to make him say that he would rather walk to London or Hong Kong next time?)

• Any of the major hotel chains should give serious consideration to providing Chuck with accommodations, and at your upcoming stockholders meeting, you may want to put it on the agenda. Chuck would prefer a "non-smoking room," which to be more precise means both that:

  (1) the room that has not been besmirched by the stale and lingering fumes of cigarette smoke, organically comingled with the equally offensive exhaled breath of cigarette smokers, which together create an invisible and fetid essence that embeds itself in carpets and bed linens, to forever make the room smell of Marlboro, and

  (2) the room itself is non-smoking, perhaps made out of non-combustible materials so that if a fire occurs, the room will not quietly smolder and throw off deadly fumes that might cause Chuck to die of inhalation as he is asphyxiated in sleep.

  A key to the mini-bar would be nice, but certainly not a deal-breaker.

• Chuck owns a Kawai piano, which is a little bigger than a baby grand but smaller than the full size grand, so he mistakenly claims itis called a "toddler grand." He likes the piano, but if the folks at Steinway want to send him a nicer one, he would gratiously accept it.

For these considerations, Chuck would be happy to tell everyone how nice you are and what great products you make. He will even be happy to have your logo sewn onto his suits, and in some cases, might even consider getting a tattoo of your one of your products on his chest or upper forearm.