Chapter 7. Culture of Greed: Sports Stadiums, Shooting the Messenger, and Rank and Yank
“Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked.” | ||
| --Lord Edward Thurlow, English jurist and statesman, 1731–1806 | ||
When your favorite rock star is a punk, has punk attitudes, has produced nothing but punk music and one day you hear him or her singing country, talking country, and acting country, it is disconcerting. It may indicate that there is something terribly wrong.
Well, the same goes for a company that spends years building up a certain kind of image and then demolishes it overnight. That is what Tyco International, which had been an investors’ darling until the Enron collapse focused the ...
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